My God, it’s good to have the Rolling Stones back. Angry is their best single in four decades, an absolute blast powered by a defiantly dumb stop start riff that recaptures the energy of Start Me Up and Jagger attacking the lyric with his best mockney sneer and an extravagant, leering defiance.
“Let’s go out in a blaze,” Jagger yells, and it certainly sounds like the Stones are determined to do that. We are treated to trademark Glimmer Twin harmonies, Ronnie Wood’s rippling rock’n’roll licks and that rarest of things, a brief, gnarly but lyrical Keef lead solo.
The style may be unapologetically old fashioned, but the sonic punch is bang up to date. It is produced by man of the moment Andrew Watt, who started out making state of the art pop with Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus, but has lately translated cutting edge studio techniques to old rockers Ozzy Osbourne and Iggy Pop.
