A solo outing

By Henry Lipput

Although the London-based glam rock band Tremendous is on hiatus, main man Mark Dudzinski isn’t wasting any time in releasing new music. His 6 song EP, Transcendence On The Cheap (digital vendors and streaming services), is, in his words, “a straight-up, stripped-down acoustic affair.”

The EP is made up of all new songs and, as special as they are right now, it’s easy to imagine how terrific they will sound when his band takes the stage to glam them up a bit more (can we look forward to a  live Transcendence Part II?). “Innocent Soho,” one of my favorite songs on the EP, is the seemingly lovely tune but turns out to be about a scary evening in a rough part of the city.

One of the first songs I heard from Tremendous was 2018’s “Rock n’ Roll Satellite.” I liked the idea that they had merged power pop and glam rock. But on Transcendence On The Cheap there’s less Raspberries and more T Rex. In fact with Dudzinski on acoustic guitar the new EP sounds like a solo Marc Bolan trying out new songs on a John Peel BBC session that never happened.