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Album - Last of Our Kind (2015), Last of our Kind full Album
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Barbarian
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Wheels of the Machine
Mighty Wings
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Sarah O Sarah
Hammer & Tongs
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Last of Our Kind is the fourth studio album from English rock band The Darkness. Produced by the band's guitarist Dan Hawkins at his studio Leeders Farm in Norfolk, the album received an advance release on May 27, 2015 in Japan[2] and will be released in the United Kingdom on June 1, and in the United States on June 2. The album was released on the band's own record label, Canary Dwarf Records, via Kobalt Label Services.

It is the first and only album by the band to feature drummer Emily Dolan Davies, who replaced Ed Graham in 2014, before herself leaving the band before the album's release and susbsequently being replaced by Rufus Tiger Taylor. The album was funded via PledgeMusic, with the band offering signed copies of the album on both CD and vinyl, as well as signed guitars, hand written lyric sheets and setlists from the band's archive.

Last of Our Kind was entirely written in Ireland, then produced by guitarist Dan Hawkins at his own recording studio, Leeders Farm, in Norfolk.[4] Around fifteen songs were in contention for the final tracklisting; ten appear on the standard release; with the Japanese and Best Buy releases containing two exclusive bonus tracks; while another, "Million Dollar Strong", was played live during their warm-up tour of Ireland in March 2015.[5] A special edition of the album is expected to be released in September, containing five bonus tracks, as well as a DVD of a live performance from prior to the album's release.

Frontman Justin Hawkins has described the album as "brutal", adding that "It's definitely stripped back with the exception of some mandolins. But when you're doing medieval rock, you should have a mandolin on it ... It's medieval rock, but it still sounds like The Darkness. It's medi-urban, I suppose".[4] Speaking about the style of opening track "Barbarian", Hawkins has joked that the song contains "not one but two dramatic monologues, a guitar solo that has been declared 'irresponsible', a riff that weakens lady knees" and a chorus that makes grown men shit directly into their pants".[4][6] Explaining the meaning of the lyrics more deeply, the singer has noted that they "describe the Viking invasion of East Anglia which culminated in the decapitation of Edmund the Martyr", describing the thematic basis as "classic Darkness".

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