The 80's are back, and they are better than ever! Founded in 2009 by members of DEF LEPPARD, THE QUIREBOYS and RAW GLORY, he UK-based super-group DOWN N' OUTZ are no strangers to this particular memorizing music genre, and have recently shared their newest record. "This Is How We Roll", which, in short, can be described as an excellent throw-back album to the simpler 80's Rock sound.

As far as musicianship goes, there is no surprise that the final product on "This Is How We Roll" is top-notch; the bright piano rhythm delivered by both Weir and Elliott are absolutely marvelous, and depict just how good of musicians these players are. This applies mostly in tracks such as "Let It Shine", "Goodnight Mr. Jones" and sparsely throughout the whole record, making appearances mostly as backing Rockabilly/Blues bright piano sections scattered wildly at the back-end core of the music. The intensity reaches its climax during "White Punks On Dope" - making an incredibly catchy, and yet, intense, immediate modern classic - especially following its middle section, which is a wild and driving section.

There are a total of three intermissional tracks on the album, as well: "Music Box" and the album's finale, "The Destruction Of Hideous Things - Pt. 3" - both of which are musicially challanging, due to their rather cirque-esque motif. Regardless of that, these two tracks are masterfully orchestrated and composed - and are essential intermediary 'tracks', along with "Music Box Reprise (Griff's Lament)" - which has nothing in common with the prior listed, as it is a simple-enough, repeating mellow acoustic guitar breather, which takes a rather dimmer approach on the album's stylistic approach, yet before it too fades out to the next track. A note of applause must be given to the production team over their efforts on these few bits of effecticness, as well as for their fantastic work on the whole record.

As mentioned above, there are moments of pure geniusness throughout the record, and this review's highlighted single, "Creatures", deserves a credit for its bizarre mixture of 80's Rock in its refrains, but silly, yet ingenious, quirkiness on the rest of the track. It is, much like the rest of the album, an easy-listening immediate contemporary classic, but adds a certain unique touch to it. Of course, it's sing-along guitar solo towards the end hits the listeners like a cool summer's breeze, and it too, in a very complimenting production decision to the genre, fades out, and gives it's place to the track to come.

"This Is How We Roll" is not at all how one might think it is by just browsing and looking into it's track list - but it's much more; it is an album dedicated to the genre that saw better days, and is weak on its limbs as of current. The musicians that comprise DOWN N' OUTZ are nothing short of RockN'Roll geniuses, and this light, yet funky, record is to prove that as long as Rock still flows in the blood of its musicians, it too will prevail.