I have to admit, I’m a sucker for garage rock either with single male/female vocals or combined. The Kills’s latest album were my favourite of the last year. Now, I know that a lot of criticism might hit them cause of some lack of novelty or whatever, but The Raveonettes just caught my heart again with In and Out of Control. Lot of time passed since their first shoegaze-noise influenced release and they went in a more cute direction, still drawing on the My Bloody Valentine, etc tradition. Of course, their cut pop is still dressed in screaming guitars and Kim Gordon-esque vocals and for me, it has an interesting atmosphere of thick fog that surrounds the sound and the vocals emerge from it. This is pop music for the fall, for rainy days, for cloudy sky. Guitar whirlwinds and erratic rhythms alternate with shadowy singing and claps. The fusion of grotesque humor, sexuality and ‘not giving a shit’ is dominant in the teen-hymn lyrics and the contrast between innocence and heavy themes is nicely played. Not saying that it’s teen stuff but it’s stuff that teens could adore, I guess. The Raveonettes managed to make a record that is in between their noise-drive and the innocence of Chain Gang of Love.

The Raveonettes - Gone Forever [mediafire] // [ysi]

ps. anyone else had the disturbing feeling of Boys Who Rape… that the girl vocals are a bit like Enya’s Only Time?

This entry was posted on Monday, October 12th, 2009 at 9:20 am and is filed under garage, the raveonettes, shoegaze, indie pop, noise, indie.