The Darkness Hot Cakes, ltd.ed.

2012, Completely over the top and still deeply in love with 80s glam rock, HOT CAKES won't be everyone's cup of tea with its heavy haze of hairspray and ridiculous amounts of leather. Justin Hawkin's high pitched wails coupled with the powersliding riffs and posturing solos might seem a tad pretentious in 2012 - yet, if you look well below the surface and listen deeper, you'll realize HOT CAKES isn't just an album for retro and nostalgia junkies, but a well-orchestrated and finely-delivered rock record. HOT CAKES takes you back in time to a time when albums consisted of 40 minutes of quality rock and roll - and not just 2-3 tracks of relevance. The songs on HOT CAKES are possibly the strongest material that The Darkness have rolled out. The band might be about the glitz and glamour, but their album holds an unrefined hard rock aura that gives it an undisputed attitude and swagger.