D-A-D

Denmark’s finest go all in to go all out on their first album in 8 years.

It’s hard to believe this band released their first album some 33 years ago, since then they have done their fair share of experimenting making some all-out classics along the way. I still think of “No Fuel Left For Pilgrims” and “Riskin’ It All” as being out and out classics from the late 80’s and the dawn of the ’90s.
Here we are at album number 12 and here I genuinely believe they have conjured the best album of their career. There is something that’s so assured in the 11 tracks on offer here, every one of them a worthy inclusion and liable to hit the spot wherever that may be.

We get things off to a grooving bouncing start with “Burning Star”. it’s bass heavy and will give any audio system a good work out, think “Sleeping My Day Away” then bring it right up to date with a relentless driving beat….a bad case of I told you so Jesper Binzer proclaims and I doubt anyone will argue with that line either.
“A Prayer For The Loud” plods along to an all too familiar Stig Pedersen bass line while Jesper sounds like he’s been chewing on a box of Wilkinson Sword blades.
I defy any person to not nod your head to “The Sky is Full of Blues”, It makes me drive faster too, just don’t tell plod!
The album is not without its melancholy moments either “A Drug From the Heart” brings the tempo down and Jesper’s voice defies the 54 years he’s been on this planet to deliver one of the albums true highlights.
It’s honestly hard going to find any weak link here, “Musical Chairs” is as infectious as a case of bird flu, like DC’s Riff Raff on steroids, I honestly can’t wait to hear it live...hint hint!
In “Happy Days In Hell” Jesper delivers perhaps the best line in a song I’ve heard in a very long time “what doesn’t kill you makes you interesting” is the first and best of the one-liners in this here tune.
“If The World Just” see’s the album out in style with the band taking a cynical look at the state of the world in 2019, if we could put things right with music we wouldn’t go far wrong by making this album a soundtrack for the future.

I’ve got to say I was more than a little excited to hear that the band were working on a new album, all I have to say now is that it’s satisfying to report after 8 long years D.A.D are back and you need to take a listen.

The band play Summer festivals in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Germany, November see’s them start out in the UK before further headline dates across Europe taking them up to the end of the year and beyond.

SF