Walter Trout – Sign Of The Times
Walter Trout – Sign Of The Times
Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital
Label: Mascot Label Group – Provogue
Release: 2025
Release date: September 5, 2025
Great artists take the pulse of their times and Walter Trout holds a mirror up to society’s anger and angst on ‘Sign Of The Times’
In his half-century as a street-level social observer and scaldingly honest songwriter, blues-rock’s resilient icon Walter Trout has never told his fans what to think, how to feel, or where to stand politically. But in an era when his home nation – and the wider world – is ripping at the seams over the battlelines of modern life, the iconic US bluesman’s hard-rocking new album, ‘Sign Of The Times,’ is a primal scream and pressure valve for all of us.
The album explodes to life with the first single and opening song, Artificial: a scornful, satirical, harmonica-spiced rebuke of the fake world we risk creating.
It feels like the amps have barely cooled from 2024’s Broken, which debuted on Billboard at #1. But the era-chronicling songs from Sign Of The Times wouldn’t wait, these urgent riffs flying off the guitarist’s fingers, assisted once again by Marie, Walter’s wife, manager and co-writer. Even by Trout’s standards, ‘Sign Of The Times’ is a record that puts you through the emotional wringer. But as long as there’s poignant and relevant music, we have a fighting chance.
Website: https://www.waltertrout.com/
Tracks:
1. Artificial
2. Blood On My Pillow
3. Sign of the Times
4. Mona Lisa Smile
5. Hurt No More
6. No Strings Attached
7. I Remember
8. Hightech Woman (CD/Digital only track)
9. Too Bad
10. Struggle To Believe