Hot Cakes - The Darkness
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67 out of 100

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  1. Positive: 15 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 24
  3. Negative: 3 out of 24
  1. The Independent on Sunday (UK)
    Aug 29, 2012
    100
    Hot Cakes is a rock-solid home win from the band who still do feelgood hard rock better than anyone alive.
  2. Kerrang!
    Sep 4, 2012
    80
    Hot Cakes may tail off a bit, but, ultimately, it proves as capable of suspending your belief and blowing your mind as any blockbuster. [18 Aug 2012, p.52]
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  3. Rolling Stone
    Aug 29, 2012
    60
    Hot Cakes stays amusing, mixing beer-barrel chuggers with proud schlock ballads.
  4. The A.V. Club
    Aug 29, 2012
    33
    With Hot Cakes-the group's third album, and first since reforming last year-the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.

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