Gerard Way - Action Cat review • DIY Magazine

Gerard Way is important. He probably never intended to be, but the fact remains - he is. Once elected as the de facto lightning rod for a whole generation of the misunderstood by an angry newspaper with too much time on its hands, if his solo album was anything less than perfect our tiny hearts would break into a million pieces.

With great power, comes great responsibility. But then Gerard has never been your average jobbing troubadour. A chameleon, as happy with a microphone as penning a new comic, one would have been forgiven for thinking that his eye may stray from the ball. You can stop that now. It hasn’t; not one bit.

‘Action Cat’ is the fist in the air war cry, the defiant stance in the face of the baying mob. If there was even the slightest worry that Way didn’t know exactly what we wanted from him, it was entirely misplaced. Familiar yet still just as exciting as ever, it’s less driving power pop, more a runaway Delorean doing donuts at 88mph across the Nevada desert, its stereo jammed at full volume. It could be nobody else.

“Do you miss me?” Too right we did.

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