The Darkness have introduced their eighth studio album, Goals on Toast, arriving in March 2025 by way of Cooking Vinyl. The lead single “The Longest Kiss” is out now.
The three-minute nugget is a love letter to ’70s pop rock a la Queen, Electrical Mild Orchestra, and Wings. Frontman Justin Hawkins places the total vary of his voice to make use of on the melodic quantity, which options distinguished piano and trendy guitar licks.
“Misty Orchards! That’s not my porn identify, that’s the form of surroundings that I like,” remarked Hawkins of the monitor within the album press launch. “I woke up to such a vista within the pleasant Scottish highland city of Nairn on the morning that inspiration for ‘The Longest Kiss’ lyric struck. I used to be bleary eyed and locked in an never-ending embrace with my (mid)life companion. Bizarre that I can nonetheless sing, however that’s a testomony to the resilience of people, particularly lead singers.”
Relating to the musical accompaniment, Hawkins added: “The music itself is a piano-led composition, the refrain of which my brother and I got here up with after he’d taken a very long time to empty his bladder throughout some spectacular pub endurance. The verses had been transposed from a track I’ve been engaged on for many years as a part of a musical in regards to the collapse of the Lowestoft fishing trade, referred to as ‘The Collapse of the Lowestoft Fishing Trade.’ The musical isn’t completed but. However ‘The Longest Kiss’ is.”
The ever-cheeky Hawkins stated that the band tapped into “the elite songs, the life-changing music of the ages” to create Goals on Toast, which sports activities a trendy album sleeve by artist Perry Shall that would’ve adorned a late ’70s Sparks LP.
“Then we popped out a dozen bangers earlier than lunch,” Hawkins continued. “And these bangers we current to you right here, wallowing in an fragrant aural ragu, served atop the charred stays of our envious contemporaries… girls and gents, I provide you with Goals on Toast!”
The Darkness — whose staple track “I Imagine in a Factor Referred to as Love” just lately vaulted to No. 1 on the iTunes rock chart due to Taylor Swift — might be supporting the discharge of the brand new album with a March 2025 UK tour with Britpop vets Ash (get tickets right here). The trek is highlighted by a finale at OVO Area Wembley on March twenty ninth in London.
You’ll be able to pre-order Goals on Toast on vinyl, CD, and cassette by way of the band’s on-line retailer. Stream “The Longest Kiss” and see the album artwork and UK tour dates beneath.
Goals on Toast Paintings:
The Darkness’ 2025 Tour Dates:
03/07 – Ipswich, UK @ Regent’s Theatre *
03/08 – Oxford, UK @ New Theatre *
03/09 – Swansea, UK @ Area *
03/11 – Guildford, UK @ G Stay *
03/12 – Hull, UK @ Connexin Area *
03/14 – Liverpool, UK @ Guild Of College students *
03/15 – Wolverhampton, UK @ Civic Corridor *
03/17 – York, UK @ Barbican *
03/18 – Edinburgh, UK @ Usher Corridor *
03/20 – Glasgow, UK @ Royal Live performance Corridor *
03/21 – Newcastle, UK @ O2 Metropolis Corridor *
03/22 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Apollo *
03/24 – Bristol, UK @ Beacon Theatre *
03/25 – Portsmouth, UK @ Guildhall *
03/27 – Leicester, UK @ De Montford Corridor *
03/28 – Cambridge, UK @ Corn Change *
03/29 – London, UK @ OVO Area Wembley *
* = w/ Ash
