Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The comparisons that will inevitably follow when Wait Till The Morning, the new album by the superb Mojo Makers, is released or even perhaps unleashed would be a better term with anything that the Midland’s own Led Zeppelin recorded should be disregarded and put away as early as possible. Not for the reason that many might think, those that believe the genre stopped being of any significance when Led Zeppelin stopped making new music, but for the fact that in Wail Till The Morning is far and away more interesting a caged animal than almost anything the Midland band put together.
Continental Europe has already stolen the Heavy Metal crown from the U.K. and North America but now they seem to be setting their eyes on being the natural home of Blues. Denmark might not be the first thought when asked where perhaps the new and exciting band who make Blues sound modern and exciting and whilst it has a long way to match the greats such as Joanne Taylor Shaw or Joe Bonamassa, on this showing, Mojo Makers are going to be a name in which others are going to tremble in fear at.
The pomp, the sheer musical Blues genius is rubber stamped all through every single deep and resonating note, through every dynamic and scaling lyric and responsive guitar move is so powerful, so entertainingly decadent that given the right circumstances, the right set of moves, this album will be spoken of in the same gestured hushed tones that another generation talk of their Midland heroes. Lead vocalist and guitarist Kasper Osman’s voice isn’t just appealing, on tracks such as Hold On, The Devil, the brilliant Faster With The Gun and Wild Moon Child, it is a signal to revel in a new breed of heroes, for once and perhaps the first time, the past, especially that of the heyday of the 1960s and early 70s is being overtaken and left behind.
Music moves on, the past is there as a guide and meant to be surpassed, finally a band has the absolute temerity and guts to do what so few have tried to do, to take on the spectre of the music equivalent of Hamlet’s father’s ghost and the result is just superb.
Wait Till The Morning is released on the Hypertension-Music label on the 16th September.
Ian D. Hall