Did anyone else think that they'd heard it all from THE KILLS? By the end of the 'No Wow' campaign, it seemed that they had perfected their brand of highly-sexed, leering rock. High levels of male-female interplay – the horniest sounds to be troubling the top 40. They were very good at being The Kills, but the formula was beginning to wear a little. A third album from them was likely to fall into the formulaic, familiar ground territory that has dogged The Raveonettes for years.
You kind of expected them not to grow any further – perhaps even disappear completely. Well I certainly did, quite wrongly as it would turn out. 'Cheap and Cheerful' is funky little number, that surpasses the edgy sleaze of Goldfrapp by far, but is certainly borne of the same idea. Not what you'd expect from a song that starts with someone either coughing or retching. Verses run into choruses seamlessly, and the song leaps from catchy hook to catchy hook. The main lyric “I want you to stay crazy baby, cos you're boring baby when you're straight” says it all. The murky sexual undertones are still present, but the sound has progressed.
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It's nice to see a band grow, especially when you least expect it.
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