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Classic Album Review: The Wildhearts | The Wildhearts Must be Destroyed!

Ginger & co. rise from the grave to bring you more pop-metal power-chord bangers.

This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


A decade before The Darkness preened and posed their way to the top of the pops, dread-headed Ginger and his Wildhearts were the wisecracking rock gods ascendant. Then they destroyed themselves with drugs.

Now they’ve risen from the grave to crank out more high-voltage power-chord pop-metal about the perils of fame, vanilla radio and believing in a thing called love. Just listen to the rhythm of their heart — along with the pounding of the kick drum — and you’ll know they mean business. Submit or be destroyed.