Unadulterated Rock And Roll. This is the proposal of Danish band BLENDED BREW and this is a tough call. What is unadulterated Rock And Roll after all? LITTLE RICHARD? I believe it must be a sense of going back to the roots of Rock And Roll with a modern roupage and some heavier guitars. We start with the album title “Roll The Dice” that is a basic but well played Hard Rock that reminded me of bands like JOEL HOEKSTRA. The band is a power trio and we have a keyboardist instead of a bass player named Lord Sebastian Groset that plays a variety of keys like piano, organ and blues harp. You can hear a shy piano on the second track “Traveling Song” that I would definitely put on my car stereo on a trip to the beach. An upbeat song to sing along on the road.

We have some acoustic tracks as well in “Burning Soul” that I believe is the “ballad” of the album, and for the genre that is being proposed, it fits like a glove. Specially with the piano in the background and the suffering vocals. We have some more piano swing on the next track “Corner Of Trust” that has a nice chorus. The sound is very polished and we have a nice piano solo in this track and a lot of bass lines in the mix. I wonder who plays the bass. We pass half way and the piano leads again in “Grateful Moment” that has a more soft Rock kind of approach and leaning more to the commercial side. Sporadic guitars are sprinkled in this track making me miss the unadulterated Rock that was promised. The track gets a little better for the solo part bringing some DEEP PURPLE vibes.

We go back to a more energetic tune on the good “Weirdo” that really has a weird tempo and guitar riff bringing a new flavour to the album. The band also mixes a bluesy piano section in the middle of this track that is a cherry on the cake for me. BLENDED BREW has a very good guitar player in Jimmy Månsson that also has a great raspy voice for the genre. We seem to get back to the good Rock sequence with “Crossing Craziness” , which is another banger. The folks in BLENDED BREW are well seasoned musicians and you can hear in the good song structure and arrangement. The impeccable production takes away the roughness of the Rock a little in my opinion turning into a polished stone. Still hard, but soft and polished on the edges. Some tracks however, flirts too much with the BON JOVI of it all as you can hear in “Intervene” that is too commercial for my taste.

We end our journey with a swing provided by competent drummer Christoffer Beck and a mean bass slap from the mysterious bass player in the track "King Confidence". The track itself gets into the soft Rock again and did not captivate me as well unfortunately. A good band and a somewhat uneven album that delivers in only a few tracks what it was promised as good unadulterated Rock. The other tracks could be in a MICHAEL BOLTON record.