Hot Cakes Reviews

As a Darkness fan I was a little bit worried when i listened to their first Hot Cakes single. But when the full cd was released I found out this is the best album they ever made. If you think there are no bands making music like the old times, you're almost right: The Darkness and their Hot Cakes are better than all 2000's bands and better then a lot of classic bands too. Songs (10); Vocals (10); Guitars (10), Drums(10)... The bass I couldn't listen very well but who cares? The album is fantastic!

Seven years away from the stage and the music biz. Seven years to reassemble the fragments of that ride fast and coarse that it was the Darkness between 2003 and 2006, when they buckled under the weight of the classic problems rocker: disagreements, quarrels, success you grind it and especially the excesses. There was nothing to fear and reasonably, in fact, after all this time ... the rest in the artistic life of a band seven years is an eternity, in fact many people do not come to durarli, seven years instead of the Darkness, pure style champion, put to silence skeptics, detractors and Bastian Against professionals. Yes, because "hot cakes" (the third installment in the discography of the group), if possible, is even more convincing than its predecessors: the work magna Rock - uppercase, is a must - albionico, son of the tradition of classical and of the giants, but free from the effect monkey trained artists and productions that often plague similar, lacking personality, net of undoubted skill and philological rigor.
If this album had a tag cloud in the kit, the effect would be an anthology of legendary names and references; already, because the inspirations from which "hot cakes" springs are straightforward to identify, but all delicate to handle without risking a fool. First, there is the trend of the British rock of the Masters: the most majestic Queen, The Who, Thin Lizzy Phil Lynott, a touch of Zeppelin, a nice touch of Stones, the spirit of Marc Bolan and T-Rex that hovers in every stanza, the pop metal band Def Leppard, the exuberance of taurine pub rock primitive of Dr Feelgood and company belligerent, fun easy by the pint of the Free, the Status Quo boogie rock, glam rock a little '( much) tamarro Gary Glitter and - why not - the air of hard rock punkizzato Iron Maiden vintage ("Street Spirit", since the attack, it looks like a outtake late seventies the band of Steve Harris, besides the fact that Justin Hawkins has some very "to Bruce Dickinson" in the singing). And then, as the legacy of the best Rock is by no means exclusive English, the Darkness will grant ramblings aroma of AC / DC, Boston, Van Halen, Kiss, Eagles and Chicago, just to accept.