CD Reviews
Constantines - Kensington Heights
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| Kensington Heights |
Artist - Constantines
Album - Kensington Heights
Label - Arts and Crafts
The fourth full-length album by this Toronto band is full of the kind of anthemic punk that inspires car trips at full volume.
With a muscular dark wall of sound like Greg Dulli's Twilight Singers, Beasts of Bourbon or Nick Cave, Kensington Heights is the best of the bunch by some distance, with melody crashing through overdriven intertwining guitars, monstrous drumming and massed choruses, before halting and tugging at heart rather than gut, as
on New King.
The delicious treat of this album lies in its absence of humour - the music is serious, but never falls into clichéd portentous heaviness.
Steve Lambke, as lead guitarist and vocalist, has made a disc that is eminently more listenable than the Twilight Singers' Powder Burns.
This won't be your favourite pick-me-up disc, but when your bruised romantic self wants an outlet, Constantines may well be nigh-on perfect.
Rating 8/10
Mike Rea
9:45am Wednesday 14th May 2008
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