DANKO JONES
Sleep is the Enemy
EMI
· This CD is like heroin. Instantly addictive and rather like an orgasm that just won’t quit.
Right from the get-go, Danko Jones’s latest offering, Sleep is the Enemy, is a raucously seductive, air-punching, guitar-stroking, drum-banging orgy of sin.
This is the kind of album that makes good girls go bad and bad boys go badder. With spot-on lyrics and speaker-shattering audio goodness, it’s clear there’s not going to be any rock ’n’ roll foreplay. It’s a damned good thing. Who has time for foreplay when the main course is this tasty?
It’s also full of snappy little observations of failed relationships such as,
"You used to be so special/now I’m bored all the time/I used to want you/now I don’t want to/time to start moving on."
For all the rejection, bullshit and betrayal, there’s still a heart beating under that sonic angst. There’s no apologies or love epiphanies. This is play-it-loud, beer-swilling, hard-on inducing, nipple-tweaking rock ’n’ roll. No one falls in love, there’s no after-sex banter. Save the happy endings for the emo kids.
The band is in peak form. Clearly, Jones has been burned one too many times and now he just wants to get laid. As he so pointedly asks, "Baby, I got a question. Do you kiss on the first date?"
For you Jones? Yes. Yes I do.
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