Listen To This: The Raveonettes

Their new album 'In & Out Of Control' can be listened to in its entirety on Spinner.com's website. I may be a little faded but I know good music when I start catching myself groovin down doing that "yes nod".

This album is has raised the bar for all the "The" bands because it actually has a story to tell. Listen to it from beginning to end. Don't jump the gun and start it from the most attention grabbing (and honest) track titles "Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)", "D.R.U.G.S." and "Suicide", set aside that extra motion in your everyday gesticulation and start from the beginning.You wont be sorry you did it.

 'In & Out Of Control' is just like how you'd envision anyone out of control. You go  from one thing to the next, but always relishing in the thing you're throat deep in. It flows to great emotional heights and spins into dark human lows. Saron Foo's clipping and evolutionary (from beginning to end!) vocals and Sune Rose Wagner's intense instrumentation are dizzying in an electrifying body highish and mind excavation sort of way. "Bang" kicks everything off with an upbeat and fun summery tune. I didn't know if the pop was going to be a one time thing or become an overdose.

I stuck around and "Gone Forever", a more serious, hollow, and distant sound engulfed me. It has an intimate longing and self-reflective bare bones style to it. After you are dropped off into a Joy Division-esque loneness the slinky bass line in "Break Into Cars" comes in shattering and crashing into "Breakup Girls". "Oh I Buried You Today" is slow and weepy. It makes me think of a wispy Skeeter Davis song. Foo's voice in "Wine" is warm and smeary, like the hazy glow you get while drinking wine. Or drinking too much. Anyways, listen to The Raveonettes and dream away in your room. You'll have an 80s flashback at some point, I guarantee it. Especially after "Last Dance". You'll get it once you listen. "Heart Of Stone" is my favorite at the moment. Gonna go take a 3rd listen...

Go to their MySpace here!

Photo credit: The Raveonettes MySpace