Santa Cruz - Screaming For Adrenaline (Reissue / Remastered) (2024) (FLAC)

Fans of that Scandinavian neo-sleaze sound will think Christmas has come early when they hear the combustible licks and red-hot hooks of Santa Cruz, the Finnish band poised to make some serious noise in the retro-rock revival realm. If you like your hair-metal ‘80s-esque and melodically sleazy with that slithering, decadent Sunset Strip groove, Santa Cruz will rock your socks off, rock your world, or whatever cliché “rock your” metaphor you can come up with.

Santa Cruz - Screaming For Adrenaline is the full-length debut, after a couple of demos and a self-produced EP, and while some of the songs are recycled, they have all benefited from engineering upgrades courtesy of a production that is tight, taut, and professional without calling undue attention to itself like a hooker who slathered on the makeup with a paint roller. In other words, this is not the kind of album that conceals a slew of sub-par sins beneath a sugarcoating of studio gloss, but instead lets the music speak for itself.

Tracklist
1. Screaming For Adrenaline
2. Anthem For The Young 'N' Restless
3. Relentless Renegades
4. Sweet Sensation
5. Nothing Compares To You
6. High On You
7. Let's Get The Party Started
8. Alive
9. Loving You (Is Just For Playin')
10. Aiming High
11. Let Me (Lay My Love On You)

Bonus Tracks
12. Standing At The Crossroads
13. Hostile Shakedown
14. Over The Limit
15. Don't Runaway
16. Alive (Live At Tavastia)

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