You may have noticed recently that all of my album reviews have been hasty.  Well, I don't have much free time these days, and especially not this weekend, and I'm going out drinking in about an hour, so a hasty review is all you're going to get.  Actually, the real reason is that I don't feel strongly about this album one way or the other, so there isn't much to write.

If you need some background on Hot Leg, check out a brief history here.  For those discinclined to follow suspicous links, here's your history lesson of the day:  when The Darkness broke up, Hot Leg and Stone Gods were born.  I've already reviewed the first album from Stone Gods (link) and I've recently had the chance to listen to Red Light Fever a few times in the past couple of days.

As I mentioned, I don't feel hate or love towards this album.  The two The Darkness albums completely grew on me after a couple listens, but this album doesn't tickle me in the same way.  It really shouldn't be surprising to anyone that Hot Leg isn't as good as The Darkness in the same way that Stone Gods is not as good as The Darkness.  I realize that these bands are trying to break off and do something different, but comparisons to their former incarnations are simply inevitable and everyone is going to have to accept that.

This is an okay rock album - there are some good tracks and some bad ones, but nothing fantastic (and nothing horrible).  The falsetto is there, the guitars are there, but the spark is just missing - nothing strikes me as particularly ingenious or entertaining.  The two tracks that I like are "Trojan Guitar" (the single) and "Kissing in the Wind".  I singled out four tracks off Stone Gods's album, so I guess that means I like them better than Hot Leg.  That's hardly a consolation for anyone though, since it's been lose-lose since The Darkness broke up.

If you like The Darkness, you can give this album a listen, but be prepared for disappointment.  If you don't like The Darkness, maybe you'll like this better since it's a more washed-out sound.  If you've never heard The Darkness (shame on you!), maybe you'll like this because you won't have high expectations like the rest of us.  Then again, regardless of your affiliation with The Darkness, you can probably ignore this album and you won't be missing too much.