THE WILDHEARTS
21st Century Love Songs
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inger Wildheart says this album was an opportunity for his band to flex its creative muscle. That appears to be quite some understatement. On the face of it, there are ten 21 st Century Love Songs here. But within those tracks are roughly 121 hooks, 68 choruses, 27 gags, 40 swear words, 99 riffs, and 14 daft samples. The splenetic intensity of these songs, constructed via a turbo-charged supermarket sweep of styles: snatches of hardcore here, grunge there, a swipe or six from the power-pop aisle, a couple of lurches into thrash, which pinballs between a lovelorn stadium rock anthem and a Motorhead-esque metal rant, an air-punching blast of power-pop positivity ADHD rock, anyone? A genre The Wildhearts can surely call their own.
