They call their music “reminiscent of a time when rock n roll still had the swagger and bite, but was less consumed with being of-the-moment.” The songs have distinctive hooks reminiscent of hair bands like Poison and Cinderella. This is the band that calls themselves Fosterchild. They have put out a killer debut album whose title is Independence Day.
Kevin Miller was the drummer for Fuel before coming to play for Fosterchild. He joined up with Brian Quinn who plays guitar and does vocals. Added to the mix is bass player Erik Leonhardt who also does backing vocals. The frontman for the band is guitarist and vocalist Danny Beissel.
Right from the first song, you will be banging your head and screaming for more. The song is Let Me Down. It has killer rock guitar and hard, slick vocals.
Hole has too tough guitar riffs and hot vocals.
Rattlesnake begins a bit like it might come from Nickelback. But just for a bit. The song starts out slow and then cranks it with static, hard hitting guitar.
Crucified is a good solid rock anthem.
Don’t Let Go has some nice piano added to nice guitar for an aching love lament.
Trigger is another aching tune, at least at first with smooth harmonies. Then things get more into a solid rock format.
The title track, Independence Day, starts out like an old Southern Rock tune, possibly like something from Marshall Tucker. Then things go into more of a Poison / Bon Jovi mode. The song has full tilt guitar and vocals.
On My Own is one of those songs that you could listen to and immediately begin to play air guitar to the chorus. It has some really hot guitar riffs, catchy hooks and great vocals.
You will be banging your head, moving your body around from the very first licks of Sugar Cookie.
Bulletproof is a definite throwback to ‘80’s hair band rock music styling.
Mission is the album’s easy and aching love ballad. There is some great guitar near the end that reminded me of some stuff from Styx.
The album ends with a mixed bag of soft and rock sounds in a song called Hunger Strike. This is a special song because Hugo Ferreira of Tantric provides some terrific vocals for it.
Is this a pretentious band, too full of themselves to crank out hot rock music? No way! Fosterchild has taken bits and pieces from the last couple of decades of great rock music and molded them into a smoldering set of songs that make up Independence Day. Fosterchild truly has the swagger and hard bite of rock bands gone by. But they apparently haven’t got caught up in the trappings of being to famous for their fans. The band, if this album is any indication, just likes to rock out and wants to take the listener along with them.
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