Got your attention? Good. I am a recent convert to the Danish indie duo, The Raveonettes, but my conversion was well timed it seems. The band's fourth full length album Lust, Lust, Lust reached record stores this past Tuesday. I had previously purchased the bands second album Chain Gang of Love the week prior and enjoyed it. The only downside to the previous album was the repitition of the gimmicky "all recorded in glorious B Flat Major" aspect. The band, despite mixing 60's bubblegum rock and roll with late 80's fuzz rock, has a tendency to fail in the diversity category. Lust, Lust, Lust (refered to as Lx3 from now on) tries to valiantly avoid old pitfalls, and does...most of the time. If the White Stripes' Elephant was about the death of the sweetheart, Lx3 is about the death of the sweetheart's dirty surrogate lover. Lust, death, and sadness permeate the album's lyrics, while the hypnotic whirr of the music is both soporific, jarring, and hauntingly hopefull. The album's first song Aly Walk With Me is a good melodic intro to the rest of the album. Sounding like Misirlou from Pulp Fiction if David Lynch had gotten hold of it, riffy guitars, mountains of noise, and Sharin Foo's melodic voice slink and crash along letting the listener know what they are in store for. Equally longing and jaded, Lx3 is the band at its least sweet, most dark, and most enjoyable.
http://www.myspace.com/theraveonettes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SMPjXsnD8k
No comments:
Post a Comment