Get Off

If you’re craving a record that burns rubber like a 1978 Trans Am peeling out of a high school parking lot, then blasting Motor Sister’s Get Off is a necessary act of rock ’n’ roll rebellion. The supergroup featuring Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, singer Pearl Aday, six-stringer Jim Wilson, Armored Saint bassist Joey Vera, and drummer John Tempesta first formed for 2015’s Ride, an all-covers tribute to Wilson’s former band, beloved blues-rockers Mother Superior. But this riotous slab finds them focusing on original material that ratchets up the riff worship a notch or three. Tunes like “Can’t Get High Enough” and “Excuse Me, Your Life Is Exposed” are vintage slices of hard rock that are—thanks to the headbanging pedigrees of Ian and Vera—souped up with heavy metal’s go-for-the-jugular intensity, aided by Motor Sister’s dual lead vocals, which recall those of classic rockers like ZZ Top and Kiss. As the expletive-spiked “Coming for You” demonstrates, Aday and Wilson push the music to a feverish, fist-pumping climax when their howls start crawling all over one another like feral cats.