"Rock, rock till you drop" as Def Leppard state on their well-known song. Well that’s the case with 286, but it doesn’t mean they follow the same hard rock path. I just used the phrase to emphasize the will and passion 286 share for rock and roll and on their homonymous debut release they continue from where they stopped on 2005’s “Profiled” EP.

With slogans like "Rock and Roll is not Dead" and "Emo Sucks", 286 are offering to the fans of hard music who adopt the same ideas, almost 36 minutes of pure “rock and roll”, as they like to call it, or “Dirty Rock” the way I to see it with some punk and hard rock references. Musically and interpretatively speaking they prefer an old-fashioned approach and production-wise they did their best to pull that off. Clearly now, 286 never claimed that they discovered America, or that they try to enrich a weather-beaten genre blah blah blah… They play what they like most and what keeps their adrenaline flowing and they do it the best possible way.

So if you can imagine how Hard Rock and Roll sounds and consider yourself a fan of this style and if your collection is consisted of albums from AC DC to Motley Crue or even Ramones and some punk, then 286’s sound falls somewhere between your musical likings and you have discovered your next "heroes”. A must-have for a Rock fan!!!