The Darkness-Last of Our Kind (2015)
The Darkness-Last
of Our Kind (2015)
“I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we
were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically
and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called rock
and roll”
Pete Townshend
By: Ghost Writer
The last time I heard about a band considering Ac/Dc and
Queen as influences I think it was Slaughter, that pop metal band from the 90s
that emerged as a spin off from the Vinnie Vincent Invasion, remember Vinnie
from Kiss? He replaced the great Ace Frehley.
Now its the turn of The Darkness, yes that glamorous hard rock band that kind of confused all of us a bit with their unusual take on the genre, using a satirical stance to revive a trend many thought dead in the middle of the grunge and the brit pop "revolution".
The Darkness also claimed that Queen-Ac/Dc influence and it really showed in their steady rhythms and Justin Hawkins androginous antics and crazy falsetto singing, strangely enough, the Ac/Dc thing now conects them to another band (also British) with an Ac/Dc fetish: The Cult.
Now there's a claim that says that Pepe Mujica, the ex Uruguayan president, fills more stadiums that Ac/Dc, so I think is a matter if time The Darkness and The Cult start listening to what Mujica has to say.
Last of Our Kind is the return of The Darkness with the wild and energetic Justin as front man a strange breed of David Lee Roth, Ted Nugent and Freddie Mercury with a thing for medieval and kitschy stuff, put immediately on display in the record first track called Barbarian with the band mix of The Damneds goth, Ac/Dc hard rhythms and Justin's growls and wails all over, The Darkness is back at peak form and heavier than ever, and if that wasn't enough check Open Fires The Cultish-like dynamic take on rhythm to understand that the band is getting tougher with the years.
A slight touch if Cheap Trick shows in the title track flashiness, hard driven rhythms, crunchy guitars and powerful choruses, in what could be one of the most accessible and reminiscent of the early days if the band, while Roaring Waters goes to hard beats and Joe Perry-muscle-like guitars and Chris Cornells like singing.
Last of Our Kind is a tough record, the bands shows they are trying hard to comeback, rhythms are awesome and guitars are heavier than ever, rejuvenating the band a giving Justin Hawkins a great template to display his fabulous yet ridiculous vocal approach, this might not be the record if the years but is definitely a great contender, the band is getting more and more serious about its legacy and it wont be long for the band to start developing a really trascedental brand of music, inclined more to the quirky pop of people like Todd Rundgren or The Sparks, whose flamboyant singer Russell Mael is an obvious big influence on Hawkins singing style.
Now its the turn of The Darkness, yes that glamorous hard rock band that kind of confused all of us a bit with their unusual take on the genre, using a satirical stance to revive a trend many thought dead in the middle of the grunge and the brit pop "revolution".
The Darkness also claimed that Queen-Ac/Dc influence and it really showed in their steady rhythms and Justin Hawkins androginous antics and crazy falsetto singing, strangely enough, the Ac/Dc thing now conects them to another band (also British) with an Ac/Dc fetish: The Cult.
Now there's a claim that says that Pepe Mujica, the ex Uruguayan president, fills more stadiums that Ac/Dc, so I think is a matter if time The Darkness and The Cult start listening to what Mujica has to say.
Last of Our Kind is the return of The Darkness with the wild and energetic Justin as front man a strange breed of David Lee Roth, Ted Nugent and Freddie Mercury with a thing for medieval and kitschy stuff, put immediately on display in the record first track called Barbarian with the band mix of The Damneds goth, Ac/Dc hard rhythms and Justin's growls and wails all over, The Darkness is back at peak form and heavier than ever, and if that wasn't enough check Open Fires The Cultish-like dynamic take on rhythm to understand that the band is getting tougher with the years.
A slight touch if Cheap Trick shows in the title track flashiness, hard driven rhythms, crunchy guitars and powerful choruses, in what could be one of the most accessible and reminiscent of the early days if the band, while Roaring Waters goes to hard beats and Joe Perry-muscle-like guitars and Chris Cornells like singing.
Last of Our Kind is a tough record, the bands shows they are trying hard to comeback, rhythms are awesome and guitars are heavier than ever, rejuvenating the band a giving Justin Hawkins a great template to display his fabulous yet ridiculous vocal approach, this might not be the record if the years but is definitely a great contender, the band is getting more and more serious about its legacy and it wont be long for the band to start developing a really trascedental brand of music, inclined more to the quirky pop of people like Todd Rundgren or The Sparks, whose flamboyant singer Russell Mael is an obvious big influence on Hawkins singing style.
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