WRABIT – Rough & Ready [Japan HR/HM 1000 Vol.4 series] (2022) HQ *0dayrox Exclusive*
Universal Music Japan has started this year another campaign of their ‘HR/HM 1000‘ series, that meaning the reissue of long time out of print albums from their Hard Rock / Heavy Metal catalog at the price of 1000 Yen = about 9 USD.
As part of the 2022 Universal Music Japan HR-HM 1000 Vol.4 series, as requested, we have here Canadian melodic rockers WRABIT first album “Rough & Ready“. This album has been quite hard to find all over the years, with countless horribly sounding bootlegs floating around.
So this Japanese pressing featuring the latest mastering is a must have for collectors with a stupendous sound quality to appreciate “Rough & Ready” fantastic production – which is far from ‘rough’, but polished and huge way ahead of this time. Indeed, while recorded 1980-81, this album sports that glossy AOR sound heard later in America circa 1983-84.
Song-wise, this is arena melodic rock / AOR like Survivor, Journey, Styx, and Kansas at that time.
“Rough & Ready” is A MUST HAVE album into your first hald of the ’80s AOR / Melodic Rock collection.
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