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Towering
Metal Planet Music reviews in the most glowing terms the freshly released Glenn Hughes’ album Chosen.
The Voice of Rock is back and taking no prisoners. ‘Chosen’ comes nine years after last solo album ‘Resonate’ gained huge critical and public acclaim and shows that there’s still fire in his belly and a larynx that’s the envy of all out there.
Having kept himself busy touring his Deep Purple focused shows and a stint with The Dead Daisies, Hughes hasn’t really stood still but still managed to write and record this ten track opus to herald the return of his own project. With longtime foils, guitarist Soren Anderson, drummer Ash Sheenhan and keys player Bob Fridzema by his side, this is a passion project that builds on the already legendary status the vocalist and bass player has worked hard to earn. With ten, all killer no filler tracks, there’s no sense of growing old gracefully and with the power presented here the outfit stamp their authority on an album that somehow balances modern production with a timeless feel.
Metal Temple is more subdued with a 7/10 verdict:
But to me it all lacks that bit of extra that will get me wanting or trying to listen to “Chosen” as often as possible. Like I mentioned, there isn’t a bad song on it, but there isn’t a proper belter on it either, and that is what could have made this GLENN HUGHES stand out from some of the others he has made. Let me phrase it like this: if I come to visit you and you are playing “Chosen” on your stereo, I will and shall enjoy it for the 50:52 minutes it lasts. You won’t hear me complain for a second. But I would never have “Chosen” this album if I wanted you to hear what I most admire in GLENN HUGHES.
Meanwhile, Get Ready to Rock not as much as reviews the new album, but publishes a retrospective of Glenn’s career for the past 20 tears or so.
Like many contemporaries there have been the wilderness years – lost to changing musical tastes or something worse. From the mid to late-1990s (chronicled in the 2020 box set) Glenn had picked himself up, dusted off the bass guitar, and since that time it has been a musical rollercoaster, crowned by solo albums, Black Country Communion and generous contributions to other mere mortals – an aspect David Randall described as “That ubiquitous session whore”.
…wear some garters if you are attending Wolverhampton, Liverpool or London this weekend. It’s the first time since 1976 for the Liverpudlians. By his own admission he ‘should be dead.’ Keith Thompson, May 2008
Classic Rock is more enthusiastic:
What seems most important with this record, though, is the weight of Hughes’s lyrics. Whichever musical hat he wears, its brim casts a darker shadow than before. Physically, he may look a lot better than most of his contemporaries do these days – he turned 74 on August 21 – but he might be feeling it. His subject matter is delivered obliquely, but in the tone of a man looking back on his life and the mistakes he’s made, making peace with himself for correcting them, and looking forward to a more contented afterlife – as he suggests in Chosen.
And yet another track from the new album was posted to commemorate the D-day. Here’s My Alibi:
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Someone gifted Glenn an Alice In Chains album!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOJEcEkR1a8
But I like the new single, grungy as it is.
September 6th, 2025 at 02:31