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| Full name | The Darkness - Motorheart |
|---|---|
| Official website | http://www.thedarknesslive.com/ |
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| iTunes | https://music.apple.com/au/artist/the-darkness/2417388 |
"The Darkness are back with their new magnum opus, Motorheart and they mean business! They mean to take all that is grey, miserable and dull in our world and reshape it with a barrage of crazed riffery, howling falsetto vocals and insane lyrical nonsense and we shall all smile again!
Truth to tell, it’s nigh on impossible to listen to The Darkness without smiling. Even if Justin Hawkins’ wild falsetto occasionally grates on your nerves and even when the lyrical content occasionally has you scratching your head in disbelief, somehow they manage to make you smile – laugh out loud with utter joy, even – and in this day and age that’s something to be very glad about!
Motorheart continues The Darkness’ quest for world domination in traditional style and the highlights are many. ‘Welcome Tae Glasgae’ is a quite ridiculous opening anthem extolling the virtues of that fine Scottish city. It might be utterly bonkers in the lyric department but it’s still a brilliant and massive modern riff-heavy extravaganza that comes raging out of the speakers with all the subtlety of a Glasgow kiss! It even has bagpipes in it and not many Rock songs can boast that honour! Hawkins’ ‘Welcome tae Glasgae’ death-grunts are worth the price of admission alone on this one.
Title track ‘Motorheart’ is a brilliantly written piece that combines all sorts of Classic Rock influences, with Arabian guitar melodies, staccato riffs, time-changes and highly melodic hooks and then adds the requisite bonkers lyricism. If you locked Thin Lizzy, Rainbow, Queen and a weird, deranged poet into a darkened room, this is what would come out! It’s absolutely brilliant and is kinda like an entire Rock opera all crammed together within a single 5 minute song – quite superb!
Motorheart is an excellent album! The strength of the songwriting and the performances of all members of the band is utterly exemplary. The band use their influences extremely well – you can spot them throughout, yet at no point are they being derivative of any one band and as a result, they once again make this their own. Justin Hawkins has lost none of his sense of humour over the years (and lyrically this album truly is as bonkers as they come) but oddly enough, that’s a major strength of it. It retains the uniqueness that is the sound of The Darkness."
Review from metalplanetmusic.com
"The Darkness are back with their new magnum opus, Motorheart and they mean business! They mean to take all that is grey, miserable and dull in our world and reshape it with a barrage of crazed riffery, howling falsetto vocals and insane lyrical nonsense and we shall all smile again!
Truth to tell, it’s nigh on impossible to listen to The Darkness without smiling. Even if Justin Hawkins’ wild falsetto occasionally grates on your nerves and even when the lyrical content occasionally has you scratching your head in disbelief, somehow they manage to make you smile – laugh out loud with utter joy, even – and in this day and age that’s something to be very glad about!
Motorheart continues The Darkness’ quest for world domination in traditional style and the highlights are many. ‘Welcome Tae Glasgae’ is a quite ridiculous opening anthem extolling the virtues of that fine Scottish city. It might be utterly bonkers in the lyric department but it’s still a brilliant and massive modern riff-heavy extravaganza that comes raging out of the speakers with all the subtlety of a Glasgow kiss! It even has bagpipes in it and not many Rock songs can boast that honour! Hawkins’ ‘Welcome tae Glasgae’ death-grunts are worth the price of admission alone on this one.
Title track ‘Motorheart’ is a brilliantly written piece that combines all sorts of Classic Rock influences, with Arabian guitar melodies, staccato riffs, time-changes and highly melodic hooks and then adds the requisite bonkers lyricism. If you locked Thin Lizzy, Rainbow, Queen and a weird, deranged poet into a darkened room, this is what would come out! It’s absolutely brilliant and is kinda like an entire Rock opera all crammed together within a single 5 minute song – quite superb!
Motorheart is an excellent album! The strength of the songwriting and the performances of all members of the band is utterly exemplary. The band use their influences extremely well – you can spot them throughout, yet at no point are they being derivative of any one band and as a result, they once again make this their own. Justin Hawkins has lost none of his sense of humour over the years (and lyrically this album truly is as bonkers as they come) but oddly enough, that’s a major strength of it. It retains the uniqueness that is the sound of The Darkness."
Review from metalplanetmusic.com
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