AC/DC - Power Up [Japan] (2020)

Year: Nov 13, 2020 (CD Nov 13, 2020)
Label: Sony Music Labels Inc. (Japan), SICP 31394
Style: Rock, Hard Rock
Country: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Time: 41:07
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 334 Mb

Charts: AUS #1, AUT #1, CAN #1, FRA #1, NOR #1, NZ #1, SWE #1, SWI #1, UK #1, US #1 plus 12 country - number 1. Подвели словаки только 15 место, и, что удивительно японцы, 11 место. Я стал замечать на примере музыкальных хит-парадов, у японцев в сознании что-то изменилось по сравнению с 60-70 годами. Те исполнители, которые в 60-70-х гарантированно заняли бы первое место в чартах Японии, сейчас занимают места ниже чем в европейских и американских чартах. "Consequence of Sound" (сайт обзора ммузыки, кино и телепередач) и "Rolling Stone" (ну а Rolling Stone знают все, нет это не группа - это журнал) - включили в список Top 50 Albums of 2020. Конечно этот альбом не AC/DC эпохи Бона Скотта или 80-х годов. Видимо народ очень ждал очередного альбома группы, предыдущий вышел шесть лет назад - в 2014. Начиная с 90 года (за 30 лет) группа выпыстила всего шесть студийных альбомов. То есть в среднем один альбом в 5 лет. Сказались, видимо, болезни вокалиста Брайан Джонсона и гитариста, одного из братьев Янгов - Малькольму. Надпись на конверте альбома гласит: This record is pretty much a dedication to Malcolm, my brother. It's a tribute for him like Back in Black was a tribute to Bon Scott. - Angus Young, on Power Up. (Эта пластинка во многом посвящена Малькольму, моему брату. Для него это такая же дань уважения, как Back in Black была данью уважения Бону Скотту.) Ангус Янг.

Band History eng:

Charts: AUS #1, AUT #1, CAN #1, FRA #1, NOR #1, NZ #1, SWE #1, SWI #1, UK #1, US #1 plus 10 country - number 1.
Following the 2014 album Rock or Bust, the group embarked on a seventeen-month world tour. Prior to the tour, drummer Phil Rudd was charged with attempting to procure murder, threatening to kill, and possession of methamphetamine and cannabis. For the tour, Rudd was replaced by Chris Slade, who had also previously played with AC/DC on their 1990 album The Razors Edge, several years after Rudd first left the band. By 2016, lead singer Brian Johnson had started to suffer hearing loss, causing the final ten dates of the Rock or Bust tour to be rescheduled. Ultimately, he was replaced with Guns N' Roses vocalist Axl Rose for the remaining dates. On 8 July 2016, bassist Cliff Williams announced that he would be retiring from the band once the tour was finished, citing health issues as reasons for retiring, and calling AC/DC a "changed animal".In 2018, rumours began circulating that AC/DC were working on their seventeenth studio album, with Johnson, Rudd, and Williams having returned to the group. Johnson, Rudd, Angus Young and Stevie Young were photographed in August 2018 at Warehouse Studio, a recording studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada owned by fellow musician Bryan Adams, suggesting the band were working where they had recorded their three previous albums. The rumors were later confirmed as the truth, with the album having been recorded there over a six-week period in August and September 2018 with producer Brendan O'Brien, who also oversaw 2008's Black Ice and 2014's Rock or Bust, with some tweaking having followed in early 2019. Every track is credited to Angus and Malcolm Young as Angus had raided the AC/DC vault of unreleased songs to record the album.
This record is pretty much a dedication to Malcolm, my brother. It's a tribute for him like Back in Black was a tribute to Bon Scott.
- Angus Young, on Power Up.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Up_(album)#External_links)

01. Realize (03:37)
02. Rejection (04:06)
03. Shot in the Dark (03:05)
04. Through the Mists of Time (03:32)
05. Kick You When You’re Down (03:10)
06. Witch’s Spell (03:42)
07. Demon Fire (03:30)
08. Wild Reputation (02:54)
09. No Man’s Land (03:39)
10. Systems Down (03:12)
11. Money Shot (03:05)
12. Code Red (03:31)