Krokus HARDWARE 02/22/2019 Fall Out Boy cooks up

Fall Out Boy cooks up an immediately digestible combination of crunching rock

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taking Knifeplay from a bedroom experiment that merely wrote songs to a more substantial project with a purpose

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Krokus HARDWARE 02/22/2019 Fall Out Boy cooks upKrokus' generic, by the numbers approach to '80s hard rock isn't particularly well represented here (the band would reach its apex on 1983's Headhunter), although there are a few good songs the album's opening and closing tracks, "Burning Bones" and "Celebration," respectively, are its best, and the steely ballad "Winning Man" (later virtually rewritten as "Screaming in the Night") is worthwhile. But stinkers like "Smelly Nelly" are just inexcusable.