The career trajectory of Hans Condor has been nonlinear, to say the least. Since 2007, Chazz Kaster’s outlandish riff machine has released only two LPs — its first in 2021 — but recorded output was less a driving force than the power trio’s feral live sets, which frequently involve bodies and beers in flight and band members leaving the stage drenched in sweat. Big Breakfast is a 36-minute collection of hard rock from well-worn road dogs, and it pushes their sound a bit without breaking anything that works. That’s to say it’s all stuff Lemmy would probably love, from the ragged doo-wop sing-along “Diggin’ Ditches” to the punchy blues of “Nose Bleed” to the Thin Lizzy homage “Big Thing.”
Best Rock Album
