Billy Idol - "Dream Into It": His first album since 2014

Teeth, lips and peroxide; an MTV-ish 'party-on' video for I'm Still Dancing - on the face of it Billy Idol returns unchanged, right down to wingman Steve Stevens' excellent, '80s-style guitar histrionics. As our host duets with guests Joan Jett, Avril Lavigne and Alison Mosshart of The Kills, Dream Into It feels like a nostalgic mea culpa, (his children's?) missed graduations confessed to alongside excess-fueled blackouts and punks vs Teds aggro on the King's Road back in 77. 

Idol's rebel yell still has snarl and charisma, but some of these songs (Wildside; Too Much Fun) feel like pop-punk makeweights included to get Dream Into It up to 35 minutes. The title track, though –think The Boys Of Summer re-imagined by The Cult - is a potent career snapshot. "First came luck, then pressure," croons Idol.