It could be me, but in 2016 a lot of music will appear in the 'beautiful but boring' category. Bands from Belgium and the Amsterdam record label are particularly good at it. Enter The Sore Losers, a band from Belgian Limburg that releases its CDs on Excelsior. Spot on spot? Nope. Just like the two previous albums, Skydogs has nothing to do with the typical Excelsior sound that we know from , or
… . The Sore Losers play timeless hard rock full of blues, grunge and garage influences - and that actually does me surprisingly well. I regularly thought of , the band that later formed arose, and that is certainly not only due to Jan Straeteman's fine throat. The guitar work is pleasantly unwieldy and heavy, while the band, witness All I Am, also knows when (and how!) To take their foot off the accelerator. (RME)more
