The Darkness er tilbage med nyt album – Dreams On Toast er ude i marts 2025
I dag kan rockbandet The Darkness dele den glædelige nyhed, at bandet er klar til at udgive deres ottende studiealbum, Dreams On Toast, der udkommer i marts 2025 på Cooking Vinyl / Playground Music.
“You know that thing when God’s breath tickles your soul and tells you to create? Yeah, makes me giggle too. But you can’t resist,” udtaler forsanger Justin Hawkins. “God might not be the power she once was, but say what you like about her, she knows damn well that what the world needs now, is rock sweet rock. And who are we, mere mortals of extraordinary ability, to argue with the divine?
“So we knuckled down and thought really hard about the best of the best, the elite songs, the life-changing music of the ages. Then we popped out a dozen bangers before lunch. And these bangers we present to you here, wallowing in an aromatic aural ragu, served atop the charred remains of our envious contemporaries… ladies and gentlemen, I give you Dreams On Toast!”
The Darkness er i samme ombæring klar til at udgive første smagsprøve fra det kommende album, og der er ingen bedre måde at demonstrere, hvad der er i vente, end førstesinglen ’The Longest Kiss’. Et upbeat pop-rock track, der nikker til 70’er poppens lyd, der kan høres både hos Queen og Paul McCartney.
Lyt til ’The Longest Kiss’ her.
Om sangen fortæller Justin: “Misty Orchards! That’s not my porn name, that’s the kind of scenery that I love. I awakened to such a vista in the delightful Scottish highland town of Nairn on the morning that inspiration for ‘The Longest Kiss’ lyric struck. I was bleary eyed and locked in an unending embrace with my (mid)life partner. Weird that I can still sing, but that’s a testament to the resilience of humans, especially lead singers.
The music itself is a piano-led composition, the chorus of which my brother and I came up with after he’d taken a long time to empty his bladder during some impressive pub endurance. The verses were transposed from a song I’ve been working on for decades as part of a musical about the collapse of the Lowestoft fishing industry, called ‘The Collapse Of The Lowestoft Fishing Industry’.
The musical isn’t finished yet. But ‘The Longest Kiss’ is. The results are astounding. We’re all very proud of this. Please, to enjoy!”