Since forming in 1996, Toronto’s Danko Jones have thrived on volume – and on the visceral energy of being in rooms together. So when the pandemic forced them to make their previous album Power Trio entirely remotely, it paved the way for a new creative mode. “When I heard Blue Jean, Denim Jumpsuit, which was the first song we wrote apart from each other, it blew me away,” the titular frontman says. “It’s one of our favourite songs we’ve ever written. It had a groove, a bounce, everything in my head that I wanted to hear.”
Accordingly, their new album a fiery fistful of
