Permission To Land [PA]

イギリスで話題沸騰後、日本でもその人気にジワジワと火が付いたハード･ロックンロール･バンド、ダークネスの衝撃デビュー作。AC/DCやクイーン、ヴァン・ヘイレンなどを感じさせるメロディにド派手なギターと高音シャウトヴォーカルが乗る痛快80年代的ロック！ツボを心得た曲作りもポイント高し。

Mojo - 4 out of 5 stars - "...To execute a rock 'n' roll this audaciously camp and ludicrously overblown take balls of exactly the dimensions they boast about in interviews..." Q - Ranked #9 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums of 2003" - "PERMISSION TO LAND is a great rock album." Uncut - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Staggeringly skillful, and a strangely touching expression of unbridled joy..." Rolling Stone - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2003" Rolling Stone - 3 stars out of 5 - "...PERMISSION TO LAND is the first retro-metal album that's worth more than a momentary chuckle. Eighties hard rock is alive and well in the hands of the Darkness." CMJ - "...[The Darkness] is here to remind everyone that rock music doesn't need to be so [damn] serious..." Classic Rock (04/06, p.37) - Ranked #89 in Classic Rock's "100 Greatest British Rock Albums" - "Full of deliriously excellent pop-metal songs..." NME (20/12/03, p.61) - Ranked #25 in NME's "50 Albums Of 2003" - "Clever words, anthemic choruses, played with panache, sung with bravado and dollops of fun."

'Permission To Land' is the debut album by the Suffolk-formed four-piece rock act whose line up includes brothers Justin and Dan Hawkins. Recorded at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire, the album includes the singles, 'Get Your Hands Off My Woman' and 'Growing On Me'.|

スリルズがウェストコースト・サウンドを蘇生させたように、このダークネスがアメリカン・ハード・ロックを黄泉がえらせる!?　UK出身なのにコッテコテなオールド・スクールLAスタイル、という冗談みたいな話が、今作をUKチャート初登場2位に押し上げ、さらにはNME誌の表紙を飾るという快挙（暴挙?）を成し遂げてしまった!　もうここまでバカになれたら、逆にカッコイイと支持したくなる。突き抜け傑作!!
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