Darlings of Chelsea - The Mimico Sessions
By Aaron Bindstar

Yeah baby, you like it dirty, don’t ya?  You want that bass line to thump, thump, thump straight through your body all night long.  The guitars screeching their way into your salivating mouth, working their way up to your ears, hitting the pleasure centre in your brain just hard enough to make the pain worth it.  While this is going on, the drums are attacking you with a bevy of sonic bliss, slamming up and down your body with the force of 1000 whips.  Then there’s the voice; scummy, heavy, haunting, the vocalizations of the bad boy that you always wanted to be but never had the cojones to become, until now.

It’s all these things and more that make The Mimico Sessions by Darlings of Chelsea one of the hottest offerings from Toronto this year.  It’s the perfect disc to drive your 67’ Mustang down the 401 to, going well in excess of the speed limit, screaming along the whole way.  The hooks are huge, the songwriting is absolutely radiant, and these veterans of the Canadian hard rock scene have come together for the first time under the Darlings of Chelsea name, to spank you just as hard as you deserve with their bottom-busting blasts of brilliance.

Darlings of Chelsea have an attraction similar to 90’s/early 00’s rockers The Black Halos;  It’s gritty, its real rock and roll, and from the very first riff on the disc you can’t help but tap your toes, nod your head and wave your arms around.  It doesn’t let up either, the band has crafted a sound that fills a void not just in Canada but North America as a whole.  With bands like Guns and Roses, AC/DC and Metallica putting out new albums that have 1/10th the amount of awesome than offerings put forth in their prime, Darlings have a great shot at returning rock and roll back into what it’s supposed to be - badass.

The only downside is that it’s way too short.  Outside of that, this is exactly what your kids should be listening to, it’ll give them hair in places that your body is too afraid to grow it.   

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