Melding too many different genres and musical aspects can create something horrible. But when seemingly opposite styles are combined, it can be a thing of beauty.
The Raveonettes' new album represents the latter. Lust, Lust, Lust is a techno dream world complete with waterfalls of sound, '80s drum beats, '50s guitar riffs and '60s technological effects. And though this sounds like it would be a cacophony of complicated creativity, the songs are simple and easy to follow.
The entire album covers that theme: simple yet completely fascinating.
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Walk with Me starts the mind-blowing creativity with a drum machine beat under bassist/singer Sharin Foo's sedately presented vocals. Suddenly a guitar line that could be in a Wild West shootout scene (or any of the Kill Bill films) envelops it all.
On most tracks, the image of the actor from The Breakfast Club walking into the distance comes to mind, and it's clear Foo and guitarist/co-vocalist Sune Rose Wagner were heavily influenced by Sonic Youth, The Clash and other '80s mainstays.
Their vocals, however, are all their own. The two look like Sid and Nancy but their music is what Sonny and Cher would have produced on an LSD trip. There's even a song called The Beat Dies that seems an eerie G
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