Admittedly, opener Rock And Roll Cowboy, its riff harking back to Queen’s Preserve Your self Alive, initially seems to cleave near The Darkness of outdated. That’s till the vocals start. Largely pitched midway between Bon Scott and Robert Palmer, they listing rock accoutrements (‘Leather-based jacket / No sleeves / Harley-Davidson / Sure, please’) earlier than arriving on the yr’s most pleasant rhyming couplet: ‘I’m a rock and roll get together cowboy/And I ain’t gonna learn no Tolstoy’.
Elsewhere, there’s a better introspection from Justin. Musically, I Hate Myself cribs from Standing Quo, however its lyrics communicate of self-loathing as self-protection (‘I actually hate myself, so that you don’t must’). On the floor it’s a breakup tune, however arduous to not additionally hear because the empathetic admissions of a person who wrought merry hell within the early 2000s, emolliating bridges within the course of. Later, on Don’t Want Sunshine, its sparse association offers the Justin of at present extra room to put himself naked (‘I’m alive, and I find it irresistible / There’s nothing you may give to me that I covet’).
A few of Goals On Toast’s most fascinating moments, nonetheless, are those who actually present the curious shapes The Darkness can twist their trademark fashion into. Sizzling On My Tail might learn like a chief AC/DC providing, nevertheless it finally ends up being extra hoedown than Energy Up, a easy nation stomp that juxtaposes properly with among the extra luxurious numbers.
Nonetheless thick the slices are reduce right here, Goals On Toast is unfold to the corners with the acquainted and the contemporary, equal elements self-awareness and self-regard, ensuing of their most interesting album of this, the second coming of The Darkness.
Verdict: 4/5
For followers of: The Struts, Airbourne, Metal Panther
Goals On Toast is launched on March 28 by way of Cooking Vinyl
