The album’s central ballad is one such moment. “Now I’m a Fool” could be about lost love or sturdiness or bluster or Hollywood. One thing’s for sure, though, it’s a damn fine rock tune. Coated with self-awareness and given a startlingly gentle dose of backing vocals from Baby Duck’s “subtle lines, oohs, aahs,” the song works every way it should.
Heart On is really about fun, of course, despite some delicate moments. “(I Used to Couldn’t Dance) Tight Pants” has big brass balls and swells with killer riffage, howling-mad vocals, and a yummy keystone of disco charm. “There ain’t no parking on this dance floor, now step aside….tight pants!”
“How Can A Man With So Many Friends Feel So Alone” finds EoDM wearing the Rolling Stones influences on their sleeveless shirts, punching out a riff Richards would be proud of over a track that aptly tinkles with piano and boogie-woogie tone. And “Cheap Thrills” gives us another lethal riff that is sure to make you want to make babies and backing vocals from the Eagle’ettes (Brody Dalle, Kim Martinelli, Erin Smith, and Kat Von D).
Packed with basement bass lines, riffs that Satan will be giving kids for Christmas, impenetrable vocals worthy of only the finest gods of rock, and enough adroit pageantry to make Axl pray for Japanese Socialism, Heart On is a rock and roll glam/garage record designed to make it hot and sticky all night long.
Article comments
1 - Glen Boyd
Great review...but really, Metallica are a spoof band like the Darkness?
-Glen
2 - Brian aka Guppusmaximus
Excellent Review, Jordan...
I got psyched and went to youtube to give a listen to some tracks...and...This album f*cking sux! The review was much more enjoyable than any of their songs.
I mean, you're pretty much dead on,nowadays, about Metallica & The Darkness but as much as I can't stand that steam whistle of vocalist, Axl hit the nail right on the head. Believe me, I get the humor but their music bores me to f*cking tears. Though, I would be much more upset having to sit through a Sebastian Bach set.
"Sebastian Bach ... they ate up his hair metal hits from the '80s and the new stuff, which sounded like the old stuff"[mtv.com]
Those people must be f*cking deaf!
3 - dished ends
I have no idea about death metal.Please give me a small description in that.Thanks in advance.
4 - Jordan Richardson
I'll tell you what death metal is if you tell me what "dished ends" are. Thanks in advance.
5 - El Bicho
Like Glen, I too was surprised by your reference to Metallica as a spoof band. Also, you seem to indicate The Darkness doesn't have "golden wisdom and introspection." Now that's fine if some cynical types don't believe in a thing called love, but there is surely a lesson to be learned from the song "Get your hands off my woman" m*therf*cker
6 - Mark Saleski
wow, rock that's actually fun! heh, that axl rose drips with class and irony.