| · Bring on the guilty pleasures.
The Darkness are making waves in the U.K. and many rock snobs can’t figure out why. Half the time they sound like AC/DC fronted by Freddy Mercury and the rest of the time they sound like Spinal Tap without the irony. There is absolutely nothing new about this record, but that’s what makes it so bleedin’ good.
Even if you strip away Justin Hawkins’s glass-breaking falsetto (which is fucking hilarious), you are still left with catchy songs, chunky chords and a stupid grin. The instant arena rock classic "Get Your Hands Off of My Woman" swipes the riff from Urge Overkill’s "Sister Havana" and delivers the singalong chorus of the year. The rest of the time they sing about ghostly dogs and heroin abuse, but they do it with conviction, damn it. Fans of the genre will cry blasphemy, but for those of us that have found out that Cheap Trick and AC/DC are never as good as you remember them, Permission to Land delivers rockin’ good news. Silver jumpsuits, marshall stacks and big dumb guilty good times – what more do you want?
ACTUAL RATING
2/5
RATING I’M FORCED TO GIVE IT BECAUSE I LISTEN TO IT ALL THE FREAKIN’ TIME
4/5
JASON LEWIS
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