Saints of Los Angeles

Saints of Los Angeles is a work on which MÖTLEY CRÜE, using big choruses and rough riffs, overlaid their past and present. Vince Neil’s voice, Mick Mars’s guitar and the rhythm of Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee carry decadence and elation at once. It is a conceptual record on which the original members regathered, inspired by the autobiography The Dirt. On the title track “Saints of Los Angeles” and songs like “Face Down in the Dirt” and “Down at the Whisky,” from the title track’s momentum to heavy numbers, there is the band’s characteristic precarious festivity. Songs like “What's It Gonna Take,” “The Animal in Me” and “Goin' Out Swingin'” breathe the band’s full playing too. They leave raw emotion behind the flamboyance. Strongly carving the meaning of the regathering, it is a full work of their mature period.