GINGER RED Donuts And Coffee CD (2018)

Spain has been quietly producing some of the most no-nonsense hard rock of the last decade, and Ginger Red are proof the scene doesn't need a Los Angeles zip code to deliver the goods.

Donuts And Coffee is the kind of record that knows exactly what it wants to be: fat riffs, locked-in grooves, and hooks that don't apologise for being hooks. There's a cheeky energy here that keeps it from ever feeling like a retread, the band pushing themselves hard enough that the end result sounds lived-in rather than paint-by-numbers. For fans of the alternative and metal underground who like their rock unfiltered and a little cocky about it, this one lands.

CD, 2018 pressing, Spanish origin.

Fans of: Airbourne, Buckcherry, The Darkness