The real showstoppers come slightly later. The emotion at the cracked heart of Love Me is so simple it\u2019s almost primal, but it doesn\u2019t diminish the anguish. \u2018My body is all that I\u2019m worth\u2026 why doesn\u2019t anyone love me? \/ I just need someone to want me.\u2019 Meanwhile, the title-track is a howled prayer of a song with a stunning vocal performance from Taylor that travels bloodstream-deep, but it\u2019s the smouldering Dragonfire that\u2019s an unexpected stroke of brilliance, its rhythmic, shifting acoustic guitar chords adding a genuine freshness. <\/p>\n
Somewhere, the light gets switched back on. About You brings an injection of defiance, as does Spell On You\u2019s witchy albeit slightly over-cheesy revenge fantasy with its lines about magic wands, potions and voodoo dolls. Then it flickers off again, with brief dives into state-of-the-world despair on Eye Of The Storm: \u2018Everything has gone to Hell \/ The rich get rich and the poor get well \/ Nothing at all,\u2019 and the grungy Dark Days, which marks a heavy-hearted, world-weary trudge to the exit. <\/p>\n
Though The Pretty Reckless have swirled in plenty of gloom to their songcraft, they\u2019ve broken a new frontier for themselves. The new swell of excitement building around them has happened for a reason. This is some of their best work to date. <\/p>\n
Verdict: 4\/5 <\/p>\n
For fans of: Halestorm<\/a>, The Warning<\/a>, AC\/DC<\/a><\/p>\n Dear God is released on June 26 via Fearless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The real showstoppers come slightly later. The emotion at the cracked heart of Love Me is so simple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-655425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}