I love rediscovering bands. If you have a large enough library of music perhaps you've experienced this. Recently I remembered that I really like the darkness. This band represents what modern rock should be instead of that hinder bullshit. seriously lets talk about hinder for a second. Even nickleback is tolerable at times (admit it, when you sang along to "how you remind me" you weren't being ironic) but hinder, three days grace and other similar bands have no redeemable qualities. The Darkness does everything a rock band should and remains original and fresh somehow throughout it. This alone blows my mind.
Rock is a dead genre, it's been done and has no new life. So how does "permission to land" fulfill our perceived definition of rock and still manage to remain fresh. The singing helps, the use of falsetto pushes rock to a level we haven't seem before. But rock has always been cocky and on top of the world. When we hear a song like "friday night", we see a rock that lives on the other side. This is a rock band that didn't fight the system, but lived within it. It plays the game, joins the clubs, and earns the grades. The rebellion of rock here doesn't buck the system by living outside it. Instead, it tries to be within the system and live a happy life.
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