Guitarist extraordinaire and former Kiss vociferator Ace Frehley’s tenth solo album 10,000 Volts is the sonic equivalent of Gakuryu Ishii’s bolshy film Electric Dragon 80,000 Volts - a massive, out-of-this-world experience that embraces the pure shreddage of the electric guitar, in an ultimate face-off between human and machine!

The analogy of overridden circuitry is unsurprisingly useful for evoking related emotions in Frehley’s case, as on the title track, on which a perfectly phased-out riff accompanies the lyric, She hit me like 10,000 volts, when I saw her face.

Then come the covers, such as Walkin’ On The Moon and the equally raw in-your-facers such as Cosmic Heart and Life Of A Stranger. No fillers here!

1. 10,000 Volts (3:24)
2. Walkin’ on the Moon (3:44)
3. Cosmic Heart (3:53)
4. Cherry Medicine (3:39)
5. Back Into My Arms Again (3:36)
6. Fightin’ for Life (3:20)
7. Blinded (3:53)
8. Constantly Cute (3:38)
9. Life of a Stranger (3:57)
10. Up in the Sky (4:27)
11. Stratosphere (3:05)

On this hyper-commercial hard-rock spirit of his former band, Frehley opens on the searlingly titular 10,000 Volts and the propulsive Walkin’ on the Moon and they are followed by the dynamic Cosmic Heart, the rythmically sturdy Cherry Medicine, before the mid-tempo, AOR balladry of Back Into My Arms Again is brought forth.

Along next on Frehley’s electrifying new studio solo album is the soaring Fightin’ for Life and the steadfast Blinded, and they are then backed by my own personal favorite, the melodically free flowing Constantly Cute, the album rounding out on the mesmerizing guitar work within Life of a Stranger, the rock out on Up in the Sky, closing on the atmospherically-charged Stratosphere.

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