Music Review

Through the Darkness (1999)

D Generation
Reviewed by Tom Sinclair | Feb 19, 1999
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Release Date: Feb 23, 1999; Lead Performance: D Generation; Genre: Rock

Gnarly riffs, hectoring vocals, melodies that stick to your brainpan, and the implicit commitment to rock as a way of life are what these New York scuzzballs are all about. Filled with near-perfect three-minute gutter-guitar symphonies, D Gen's hard 'n' hooky Through the Darkness offers the most convincing argument yet for these cats as the last, best hope for this sort of stuff. On ''Rise & Fall,'' Jesse Malin proclaims, ''I'm not Joe Strummer, honey.'' Maybe not, but Malin and his boys are certainly Joe's spiritual kin. A-

Originally posted Feb 19, 1999 Published in issue #472-473 Feb 19, 1999 Order article reprints

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