Album review: THE DEAD DAISIES – Lookin’ For Trouble

SPV [Release date 30.05.25]

This is the eighth studio album from the band and marks a diversion from the usual formula, an album of blues covers. It could be construed as a mark-time affair before – in this band’s case – the arrival of a new vocalist. But John Corabi returned to the band for ‘Light ‘Em Up’ following two albums with Glenn Hughes and seems to have settled back in.

Those two albums were unsurprisingly all the better for Hughes’ contribution – ‘Radiance’ is particularly impressive – and it gives the impression that, for all the games of personnel musical chairs, The Dead Daisies have struggled in terms of consistency since their beginnings back in 2012 . It seems also that the band isn’t just a vanity project for guitarist/founder David Lowy.

For a band including the likes of Doug Aldrich this album is never going to be short on musical (and muscular) pyrotechnics but do they bring anything fresh to these blues standards? Probably not, it smacks of really good roadhouse band in the early 1990s.

Paying dues to the blues on album in some shape or form is probably on the “to do” list of most classic hard rockers and ‘Lookin’ For Trouble’ in the main plays out well. There’s little deviation from the original templates and in truth we’ve heard the stuff played just as well from artists like Jeff Healey, Pat Travers and Gary Moore. Songs like ‘Boom Boom’ and ‘Born Under A Bad Sign’ although Aldrich does elevate ‘The Thrill Has Gone’ together with an impassioned vocal from Corabi.

Mark time? Maybe. Last year’s ‘Light ‘Em Up’ was disappointing given the undoubted talent and pedigree on display. What this band now needs is a bunch of killer originals to fully address our expectation and, to be honest, short attention span. ***

Review by David Randall

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