Ahhh, Anglebox are back! This one is a corker!

The guys have channeled a blend of Mick Taylor-era Rolling Stones (think Sticky Fingers and the I Know It’s Only Rock And Roll, Brown Sugar sorta sound) backing up a tenor-rich Midnight Oil vocal, to bring us a bouncing rock and roll number that’s going to be a live favourite and should be a staple for The Rock, Hauraki and all the stations that play the up-tempo guitar led stuff.

With an anthemic chorus bursting out of nicely weighted verses that feel like barely contained explosions themselves, you’ll be humming this to yourself for days. Total ear worm of the happy kind. The band is clearly highly adept at their tools of trade, and they play the music they like, for audiences that like the same. There’s an obvious call for this, and happily this is the type of music that lends itself extremely well to the live circuit that – do I call it this? – Pub Rock/Kiwi Rock fans attend very loyally.

The guys wrote this during lock-down as “a cry for help from the planet”, and worked on it until we have this great track today. There’s some nice, Stonesie rhythm guitar and appropriate lead stuff at the right moments. Bill and Charlie sorry Greg and David provide a solid, deep bottom end that married well with Ian Cartwright‘s reliable and constant rhythm guitar. I always like the vocal performance of David “Stacky” Stack. His delivery here has been captured perfectly by studio engineer Ian McAllister.

What would be fun would be for the guys to hire some sailor suits from a costume hire place, locate a marquee and do their own cameo of the old Stones vid with the bubbles machine that almost took out Charlie Watts, and give it a push online.

Get behind this one if boogie rock, pub rock and good old Kiwi music is your thing. Anglebox are out there doing it, representing this field of genres really well. Great work again guys, this is well worth people’s time! The track is Save Me Please, and it’s on Spotify and the rest of them now.