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Album Review
by SashaS
16-9-2003
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More on: Pretty Girls Make Graves
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Pretty Girls Make Graves: 'The New Romance'
(Matador)
Pretty Girls Make Graves unbolt goodies
What’s on your side of reality? Fakes-pretending-to-be doing something but actually only recycling the past? There are so many of them, fans started to believe they are real, helped by advertising and hype machines… The music Parthenon is empty of real dealers…
Pretty Girls Make Graves remind so much of the ‘New Wave’ post-punkers, original division from the closing of the 1970s. (But that’s only the launchpad of the story.) There is that twee, almost hesitant, sound that is such a delight on the opening ‘Something Bigger Something Brighter’, it is a way to tattoo your time-frame.
But PGMG are not all one-dimension and there is 'fury' on ‘The Grandmother Wolf’, weirdly-rocking on ‘All Medicated Geniuses’, and then it gets funkily-rocking on ‘The Teeth Collector’, beautilicously tense, engagingly offbeat. The title track is an intricate pop song that jumps with joy and ends recalling the best days of Siouxsie And The Banshees, ‘This Is Our Emergency’ is an energetic song that causes booty-shake while you contemplate to stand up and be counted, waking up from the ‘drug-of-the-nation’ narcolepsy!
The band was formed in 2001 in Seattle, out of the ashes of many a local outfit, and numbers five: Andrea Zollo (vocal), Derek Fudesco (bs), Nathan Thelen (gtr), Nick Dewitt (dms/piano) and Jay Clark (gtr/keys). After releasing an EP on a miniscule label (DimMak), the debut album ‘Good Health’ followed with its ambition being to remind you of the time when music meant something.
Since then they’ve honed their craft into this vignettes that can take you tripping via a guitar-noise (‘Holy Names’) or taking you on another magic ride with the closing ‘A Creative Cemetery’. PGMG offer an album on another magic note, riffing you into happy oblivion.
“Some people are gonna say that ‘The New Romance’ is the album of the year, but forget that; it’s the album of the moment. Do, put down your iPod and quit Googling yourself. This is your emergency, too, ya know.” [Written by a record company propagandist but as true as tomorrow.]
8/10
SashaS
16-9-2003
Pretty Girls Make Graves’ album ‘The New Romance’ is released 08 September 2003 on Matador
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