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There is no need to pull any punches, let them land, let them bruise, let them shine and became the tales of war, for only by being hurt can you come back stronger than ever and renewed in faith and spirit to take on the oppressors and the dynamic of tyranny; and if you need a doctor to prescribe the feelgood emotion, then listen on.

Time moves ever swiftly on, and we overlook the players that formed our initial love of the subject at hand, but we never forget them, even if they change the outlook and the projection of their being, we remember that they, the name, was the foundation for our love, the originality of their being, their sense of craft enthusing us to discover more.

Time was and always will be in the hands of those who prescribe the medicine of happiness, of gestures fulfilled, and promises of boundaries traversed. It is the dynamic and force of the punch that follows through that sets the template for a kind of immortality, even when the faces change, even when the line up is no longer that which first set the world on fire, the message and the way it is delivered, remains thankfully, and robustly, the same.

The expletive fits, Damn Right! it does, for the Canvey Island express roars back into action, and the timeless sound, missing from the studio for almost two decades, returns with an album of original tracks that shake the apathy and reinforce the foundations that were laid 50 years ago by a crowd of likeminded souls; for Dr. Feelgood may have practised the type of medicine in another age that stirred, but no matter the membership, it still rocks…Damn Right!

Across tracks such as Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, Take A Second Look, Damn Right I Do!, Keep It Under Cover, the aptly written I Need A Doctor, and Mary Ann, the originality is revealed, not a single cover, and in their own right, a set of class for the band in question.

In the first album since 2006, the sense of Time is unquenchably cool, the two eras of the group, one the founder of prepunk quick lyrics and sound, and the resolute sons who have come back to the place where it arguably left off, and by picking up the mantle of the past, the tone, the measure of blinding rhythm and blues is sacrosanct, it is Timeless.

Ian D. Hall