Ralphadeus

Album review
Raveonettes
Pretty in Black
The difficult third album sees this Danish punk/country band showing the influence of their tours over in the US by sounding a little bit too country at first for my taste - in fact by the second track you may be shouting 'life's too short - eject this nonsense' but 'Love in a Trashcan' hits the soundwaves and the record stays on. Thankfully there is still a little of their 'lets rip off the Jesus and Mary Chain' styling to make this listenable but the Everly Brothers style harmonies and clean echoey production doesn't help the dodgy songwriting. I wish I was Danish and then I could sing (totally deadpan) 'Somewhere in Texas, by the Yellow Sand'. I think they're trying to be the new White Stripes. Why? We only just got rid of the last ones. Listen to excerpts etc here
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007WF1VO/002-5429385-3648004?v=glance
Coming soon reviews of the Astronettes and Soviettes in a Nettenet scoop