21st Century Love Songs

21st Century Love Songs is a work in which, characteristically for THE WILDHEARTS, punk impulse, hard-rock weight and superb power-pop melody become a single mass. The songs develop unpredictably, but however rough they get, Ginger’s songwriting always returns to a strong hook. Inheriting the momentum of the previous album Renaissance Men, the band develops an even fuller expression. On the title track “21st Century Love Songs,” “Remember These Days,” “Splitter” and “Sort Your Fucking Shit Out,” anger, anxiety, humor and tenderness enter the same song. Songs like “You Do You” and “My Head Wants Me Dead” carve raw emotion too. While conveying the band’s long history, the sound is thoroughly raw. It is a record showing the splendid coexistence of chaos and pop-ness, aimed at those for whom over-tidied rock is not enough.