Hot Cakes [Bonus Tracks] by The Darkness (CD, 2012)

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The Darkness

CD

2012

Hard Rock

Hot Cakes [Bonus Tracks]

Rock

1

USA

Hot Cakes is British hard rock band the Darkness' third studio album and first since reuniting in 2011. The album follows up 2005's One Way Ticket to Hell...and Back and features the original lineup of singer Justin Hawkins, guitarist Dan Hawkins, bassist Frankie Poullain, and drummer Ed Graham. Produced by the band along with Nick Brine and mixed by Bob Ezrin, Hot Cakes includes a cover of Radiohead's "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" as well as the singles "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us" and "Everybody Have a Good Time."

Rolling Stone (p.80) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "HOT CAKES stays amusing, mixing beer-barrel chuggers with proud schlock ballads." Kerrang (Magazine) - "[I]t proves as capable of suspending your disbelief and blowing your mind as any blockbuster....The Darkness are back and, this time, it's personal." Q (Magazine) (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "HOT CAKES leaves you with the sense that The Darkness' reinvigoration will delight those longing for rock to rediscover the fun button." Mojo (Publisher) (p.86) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[H]appily HOT CAKES re-boots the ebullient riffage and hooky, castrato-like histrionics that their 2003 debut PERMISSION TO LAND so welcome." Paste (magazine) - "Still intact are guitars, guitars, guitars, Hawkins' otherworldly falsetto, and the band's proclivity for arena rock practitioners like KISS, Queen and AC/DC."