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- Summary: The fifth full-length release for the British glam-metal band is its first with new drummer Rufus Tiger Taylor (son of Queen's Roger Taylor) and was produced by Adrian Bushy.
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- Record Label: Cooking Vinyl
- Genre(s): Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
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| Air con set to sub-arctic If it moves it isn't quick Major delays, cancellations Tedious conversations Trying to eat your dinner with an ass in your... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 3 out of 7
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Mixed: 4 out of 7
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Kerrang!Oct 4, 2017In their own way The Darkness, enthusiastically blending banter and bombast in equal measure, are proving as much fun [as Queen]. [7 Oct 2017, p.51]
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Q MagazineOct 4, 2017Killer tunes. The hyperventilating Buccaneers Of Hispaniola is as cheesily brilliant as it sounds. [Nov 2017, p.107]
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MojoOct 4, 2017The Darkness have regained much of the joy, silliness and virtuostic songcraft that made their 2003 debut Permission To Land such fun. [Nov 2017, p.96]
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Oct 4, 2017This is feeble stuff, more Benny Hill than Russell Brand. When they hit the target, The Darkness are untouchable, but too much of Pinewood Smile feels like a half-hearted wank when it should have been a mighty ear-shafting.
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Oct 16, 2017It’s just sad to hear the spark of reinvention that ignited their last powder keg of an album confined to a handful of tracks on a largely mediocre album. They can do better. They have done better. They will do better again.
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Oct 4, 2017Pinewood Smile should be all killer no filler, but late-album offerings like the vapid "Happiness" and the infantile no-fatties ballad "Stampede of Love"--Spinal Tap's "Big Bottom" was ludicrous and infantile, but it wasn't cruel--suck some air out of the room, making the whole thing feel a little stale, which is the last thing you want from a project that so fetishizes another era.
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Oct 12, 2017Pinewood Smile has got more jokes than ever, and it’s the first time the Darkness don’t evoke 1974 or 1984 so much as 2003--and they’ve never sounded more dated.
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Feb 5, 2023
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