The swan song?

The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? AC / DC, with the forced departure of older brother Malcolm, this precious rhythm guitarist, and all that, is necessarily a cross towards the siding or the highway to hell? We do not know anything.
First good news of the year, half ratage Black Ice of lessons have been learned, where its predecessor showed "proudly" 15 tracks and over 50 minutes, the wheat and the tares or Bust Rock back to basics with just 11 songs for 35 short minutes (the shortest album of their career!), some will regret it but it gives us, in the end, a much more dynamic tracklist. And indeed, second good news, Australian old seem to have regained some vigor, nia or there, even the poor ambulance, Black Ice was noticeably soft knee. And the voice of Brian, you will be interviewed legitimately, she's fine, thank you, there is always a little sore throat upon hearing but rather is beautifully enhanced, it is weathered by hectoliters of stout and some old whiskeys, for a production that, precisely, is the third good news of Rock or Bust. Markedly drier and seminal as that recorded everything that AC / DC from Stiff Upper Lip and, further, Back In Black and Highway To Hell (though what picky perfectionist entrusted to Robert John "Mutt" Lange) it sticks like a second skin to hard'n'blues training, we are surprised to discover that even this is always Brendan O'Brien (Black Ice, therefore, but also, more importantly, almost all Pearl Jam) in control A O'Brien, suddenly, clears his little exciting past performance with our favorite Aussie adoption, bravo.
And the songs? Obviously, those who expect exactly the Highway to Hell or Back in Black will be for their expenses, definitely, those days are over. That does not mean that Angus, now forlorn to the creation as if it recycles some ideas recorded by his absent brother (poor Malcolm!), Not yet known to lay the big fat basic riff that one wonders how he still made to find in a musical panorama finally quite limited, Brian Johnson is not hoarse to the best of its current capabilities (which are still quite pale frayed vocalists), the rhythm section is not, yet and still, this implacable machine we have come to know and love, clearly, and we would not want anything else for that matter, it's still pure (and hard!) AC / DC used by some "treats" a little more efficient than their neighbors: the big fat bluesy hard making the mane shake and stir the butt (Get Some Rock'n'roll Thunder, Hard Times), the powerful riffu which returns you live in fat (Dogs of War), that the we would not be surprised to see again in some overheated chaeur in the sports arena supporter electricity (Play Ball), or more bluesy as the group does so well (Miss Adventure). So many reasons to rejoice and not much to throw around, we almost pliers to believe.
Obviously, the impact is not as immediate but, with time for reflection, which often lacks chronically "automatic" delivered pronto, this AC / DC is good, and that the absence in the game of Malcolm n ' it is not detrimental because it is still there in the composition though filtered by the dwarf horned schoolboy, this dry tone ideally befits a (hard) rock that never should take anything unnecessary fat, its cumbersome Hollywood's most albums. Time will tell whether or Bust Rock will be, or not (not!, Desired), the swan song of the Aussies, it is already a pancake we listen with great pleasure ... It is expected in no more and certainly not as much.

Brian Johnson - vocals
Angus Young - lead guitar, backing vocals
Stevie Young - rhythm guitar
Cliff Williams - bass guitar, backing vocals
Phil Rudd - drums