[kj] Top 10, post-Y2K

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Another band sorta like Interpol that I think is yet another "throwback" 
band is ... SHE WANTS REVENGE. Joy Division throwback, that is. Even 
some of the song titles.

Embarrassing confession: I actually dug this album when I saw 
way-advanced copies of it floating around Soulseek about a year before 
its official release. I was like, "Wow, this is like Joy Division meets 
Sisters of Mercy." (That is, one song is like Joy Division, another like 
Sisters of Mercy, but it all sorta worked.) Then the LP officially came 
out and the album art was TERRIBLE (what is it, like an American Apparel 
ad outtake or some MySpace photo of a girl's ass in her white cotton 
undies? What the hell? I expected a cover that was mostly black with 
some stormy clouds or simply white line art ror something, 
Bauhaus-style) and it was carried at Target! That blew me away. Still, I 
enjoyed it.

Just don't tell anyone that.

-Oliver


ade wrote:

> YES INDEEDY!

>  

> The whole obviousness of the retro thing going on these days is a 

> total turn-off for me. "Ooh, why don't you

> like Interpol?" Erm, maybe because they're such an obvious rip-off 

> that it makes me cringe. Ian Curtis

> vocals anyone? Editors, Killers, blah blah, on & on & on.....

>