Music Review: Ex-Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley is back with another great solo album
Associated PressNo shock here: Ace Frehley has still got the power. The former Kiss guitarist whose vocal debut came on 1977’s “Shock Me” is back with “10,000 Volts,” a new solo album that’s crackling with energy and personality. “Up In The Sky” is vintage Space Ace wondering about mysterious lights in the heavens and “Cosmic Heart” is a dark, slower-paced rocker reminiscent of Kiss’s “She” from 1975. “Constantly Cute” is a catchy pop-rocker marred by truly cringe-worthy lyrics that even a puppy-love-smitten 12-year old wouldn’t use, and “Blinded” takes aim at the risks of artificial intelligence. It ends, as all Ace Frehley solo albums do, with an instrumental in the style and spirit of “Fractured Mirror,” the acoustic-electric composition that closed his self-titled 1978 solo album.
