Almost a decade on from his last solo release, 2016’s Resonate, Glenn Hughes is going it alone once more. Behind him are diversions with The Dead Daisies, a fifth album with Black Country Communion and, recently, dalliances with guitar duo Satch Vai and pop star Robbie Williams. Ahead of him, you sense, he knows there may not be a whole lot more in terms of records. In fact, Hughes has admitted that this might be his final solo album and will almost certainly be the last in the rock vein.
The dilemma, then, must have been how to bow out. Return to the Stevie Wonderlands of 1977’s first solo album Play Me Out? Revisit AOR, as on many of his late-90s records? Get down to full-on funk as with First Underground Nuclear Kitchen in 2008? The simple answer is none of these, and hard to categorise.
