For the first time in my career & theirs, The Wildhearts got me off on the wrong foot. As Ginger sings on "Plastic Jesus": “I've been looking for a new direction, I found the cheapest way of selling out”, I actually thought that's exactly what they had done. Songs like "Plastic Jesus", but also "The Only One" and "You Are Proof That Not All Women Are Insane" all sound deviously simple for Wildhearts standards and even have more or less sing-along chorusses.
But when the glorious bar brawl-song "Mazel Tov Cocktail" came crashing into my living room, I realized they were pulling one on me as Ginger & Co. returned a little more to their melodic, Cheap Trick roots instead of continuing the 'metallic tendencies' of their previous, self-titled riff-heavy effort. And that's of course the exact opposite of we all thought they would do. Which is why we started loving them in the first place, ain't it? And the listener is not exactly left on his/her hunger when listening closely to the album's title song "Chutzpah" which has more licks & structure changes in close to 6 minutes than the average DT-song.
It takes a couple of listens, as usual, but The Wildhearts still have to make their first not-so-excellent album. Enjoy! (
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