Tom Petersson on Cheap Trick's new album, 'All Washed Up': ‘We just want to do what we think sounds good’

Tom Petersson on Cheap Trick's new album, 'All Washed Up': ‘We just want to do what we think sounds good’

Cover art for Cheap Trick’s ‘All Washed Up’/ (BMG) Cheap Trick will release their 21st studio album, All Washed Up, on Friday, and bassist Tom Petersson says their approach to making records today is the same as it was when they first started out over 50 years ago. “We just are making songs that we like, would like to hear ourselves,” he tells ABC Audio. “So it’s like we’re making it for ourselves and our friends, and then the rest, it’s like ha…

Cheap Trick’s All Washed Up reviewed: veteran power-pop trio keep the faith

In the liner notes to Incesticide, Kurt Cobain described Nirvana, then arguably at the peak of their powers, as “the ’90s version of Cheap Trick”. His curveball declaration sent a generation of grunge kids scurrying to the bargain bins in curiosity and bemusement, there to find a batch of unloved ’80s releases by the Midwest power-pop titans. If they were lucky, they might have scored one of Cheap Trick’s first three albums, with which they scra…