The Atypical Review
The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Wind-up)
Sep 13, 2012 Web Exclusive
Oh, the utter ridiculousness. The bombastic camp. The pomp and cheese. The crank-it-up-to-11, tiny Stonehenge-esqe, frenzied falsetto foppishness. The Darkness, a band that takes Poison and Mötley Crüe to its logical extreme, has released another album after a seven-year hiatus. And it’s everything the band’s 2003 breakout single, “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” could have predicted.
Call it middle-school rock, because from the oral-sex baiting, pornographic pun-using opening track, “Every Inch of You,” The Darkness takes no prisoners in appealing to your hormone-addled 12-year-old self. There are certainly standouts on Hot Cakes. “Nothin’s Gonna Stop Us” sounds like the power pop bastard child of Queen and ‘80s one hit wonders Europe. “Everybody Have a Good Time” is big-melody party rock, and “She’s Just a Girl, Eddie” is guaranteed to make you smile through your wince. I dare you not to whistle along with the power-y ballad “Living Each Day Blind.” And that’s nothing compared with the band’s raucous Kill ‘Em All-style cover of Radiohead’s “Street Spirit (Fade Out).”
Yes, it’s monumentally silly. Yes it walks the thin line between fun and pathetically funny. But you’ll find no band more willing to walk that line with brazen hedonistic gusto than The Darkness. Not all of Hot Cakes works (and trust me, I use the term “works” loosely). But when it does, it blows the speakers out and makes you want to write double entendres for a living. Long live The Darkness (and with it, my terribly misguided pre-teen self).
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