... this is a performance which mixes sumptuousness and refinement with impeccable poise and style...Bicket s approach is so gloriously relaxed and expansive that the music seems to float timelessly in the air like so much arresting perfume...I am now convinced that Watts is as authoritative and compelling a Bach soprano as you will find anywhere today. (International Record Review - March 2011)

Lacking the slippery gloss and superstar cameos of his last record, 2007’s Angel Down, Sebastian Bach’s fourth solo album, Kicking & Screaming, is stripped to its basics, bearing all the hallmarks of a lower budget. Survivor that he is, Bach adapts to his new surroundings, hiring hungry younger players, then pouring it all out in a record that’s leaner and hits harder than most of his other records. Material-wise, this may not always gel -- particularly on the ballads, which tend to meander -- but what surprises about Kicking & Screaming is how hard and strong Bach sounds; he may no longer be a star but he’s not stopping from performing with abandon, and he’s pretty much the only one of his peers to still sound so vigorous.