BBC Review
The Hawkins boys know what we like about them and are happy to keep on giving.
Chris Long2003
What opens with pan-pipes, closes with rock opera, and has septums, prize marrows and Knockers in-between? It's The Darkness' rockin' new album.
The release of previous album Permission To Land was one of the events of 2003 but many believed that the band simply couldn't follow it.
The truth is that One Way... doesn't shock like Permission, but neither does it fall short. The Hawkins boys know what we like about them and are happy to keep on giving. Riffs rampantly fly about, Justin's falsetto careers around with his trademark humour and the influences have been pared down to a prog mix of Queen and AC/DC.
Shockingly, it all points to one thing - The Darkness actually have a career ahead of them. The joke, it seems, is on us.
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