Albums: Roll With The Punches

Released on 29 August 2025, "Roll With The Punches" is the 16th., studio album by Canadian singer Bryan Adams, the album was released on Adams' own label Bad Records. Four singles has been released since February 2025 "Roll With The Punches", "Make Up Your Mind", & "A Little More Understanding" which has an astonishing video. 

 

The album's title track has been described by Adams as a "hefty rock stomper", and is about resilience and "the spirit of getting back up no matter how hard you've been knocked down". Definitely there's one thing for sure, the man still can rock just like in the good old days 80s/90s, and for some reason the Canadian knows what he got and I think, this must be the secret of his longevity in music business. 

 

Roll With The Punches is his sixteenth album and the first on his own label, and inmeditately if you were a truly follower of his career will associate the sound just like in the days of "Cuts Like A Knife/Reckless" thing.

 

The opening title track, with its nod to Proud Mary, the rhymes are cheerfully, and he does what soft rockers of his vintage always do, where he yells the title – ‘You’ve got to roll with the punches!’ –  and even the Yeah! thing to transmit the vibe, there is also bluesy sounds, the usual romantic waltx on "Two Arms To Hold You" just like he knew how to do it, even the pro-choice and anti-war message in a gentle style on "Life Is Beautiful", the peace message on "Love Is Stronger Than Hate" is another highlight and the surprising "Never Ever Let You Go" in which you can still apprecciate something of his back catalogue to please the audience, not bad the ballad "Will We Ever Be Friends Again", a little bit cheesy indeed but I guess he pointed nostalgia as a way to ease the confusion we are living it nowadays. 

 

Not a bad album, indeed it's an accessible record and it'ss enjoyable, definitely the Man is poitnting his fans that definitely will love this, cause there's a lot of familiar sound from his back catalogue but in a freshly renovated way.

 

Roll With The Punches Track List:  

 

1. Roll With The Punches

2. Make Up Your Mind

3. Never Ever Let You Go

4. A Little More Understanding

5. Life Is Beautiful

6. Love Is Stronger Than Hate

7. How's That Workin' For Ya

8. Two Arms To Hold You

9. Be The Reason

10. Will We Ever Be Friends Again