So, its the Spring of 2011 and out came the birds, the bees and other little rakes and in this setting the new Whitesnake album fits like a glove. Forevermore is everything we'd expect form it and nothing less. And, well, nothing more, but let's be honest here - has any of you ever imagined Whitesnake singing about the Tahrir Square protests? This is an album about love. About happy love. About miserable love. About sweaty athletic, rolling on the floor love (ROFL), one night stands and so on, you get the picture. All that loving takes place is accompanied by sinfully dirty guitars that are the real difference between Whitesnake and the bunch of identical nobodies that blabber about bird and bees. As David himself put it some years ago - "Gimme a rock'n'roll band with a mean and dirty blues guitar" - and thank god Whitesnake stay true to that creed. The blues influences are all over the place and David has left the velvet in his voice somewhat in the backseat in exchange for his equally famous husky timber. By the way, Forevermore is quite long - 70 minutes - and about 60 of them are pretty energetic. Of course there are also the songs you can wave cigarette lighters to. (Well, I know that the fashion now is to wave mobile phones. Then it will be tablets. The 42" TVs. Fucking technology!). But the point is that the album is an album - a homogeneous whole, not just single-and-ballad with filling as is the common practice nowadays. And though Forevermore does not surprise, it doe not disappoint either and its worth playing it. Mostly in the presence of ladies, of course.