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After years of my good buddy Scott trying to ram The Wildhearts down my throat I finally ended up giving a good listen to the mountain of CD's he had given me, it wasn't helped by the fact that each week I was given ten or so new bands to divulge on top but it shaped my love for all things heavy the only downside is that after falling for The Wildhearts last self titled album in a big way I've been kicking myself knowing what I was missing out on all those years. Well at least there's the future and with a new(ish) and clean(ish) mentality the band that has existed for the better half of nearly two decades are seemingly set for another stint on the long haul road of Rock and Roll.
It mustn't be easy being a member of Europe. To have everything you ever do measured in terms of success against that one song that almost everyone knows, yes the final countdown, makes everything that follows more like climbing Everest when you're expecting Snowdon but the band have never seemed to take too much notice of this. They have plugged away and after a mid hiatus in 1992 have returned with two more solid albums that have seemingly taken away the pub jukebox tag that once went with the band and now sat upon the eve of releasing 'Last Look At Eden' which if the album sampler is anything to go by is going to be a real barnstormer of a 'classic' rock album.
When Therapy? released Crooked Timber in the summer they sent out a message to all, they are announcing themselves back and in business once again. Sure they never really strayed too far from the scene however at times during the bands 20 year career there were moments where perhaps things dipped slightly. Now all that appears irrelevent as everything else that has gone before has somehow managed to mutate itself into a fantastic melting pot that the band draw upon and impart brilliantly in their highly acclaimed new opus.
