Pressed on 180-gram audiophile vinyl. It never took Rory Gallagher a longer time to release a new album. Five years after 'Jinx', seemingly an eternity, 'Defender' was released at last. Though it took a long time, the quality of this blues-rock offering is equal to his stellar '70s albums 'Top Priority' and 'Photo-Finish'. Album opener 'Kickback City' could be a song from hairy rockers Bad Company with heavy pounding guitars, but 'Failsafe Day' and 'Road To Hell' are by-the-book-crunch-rockers as well. The blazing riff in 'Continental Op', and the swampy, less abrasive 'Ain't No Saint' complete this amazing (but unfortunately less hyped) album.
01 Kickback city 02 Loanshark blues 03 Continetal op 04 I ain't no saint 05 Failsafe day 06 Road to hell 07 Doing time 08 Smear campaign 09 Don't start me talkin' 10 Seven days