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- Date Released: October 6, 2009
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Rock
- Label: Vice Music / The Orchard
The perennial concept band finds some real tunes to match their shimmer
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We Say...
Kind of heartwarming to see this perennial concept band come into their own. After seven years of minimalist gimmicks — like whole albums in B-flat, hip guests (Mo Tucker, and of course, Ronnie Spector) and other repetitive Psychocandy fuzz that smacked of affectation — last year's Lust Lust Lust set the stage for more tuneful things to come, like the sparkling, nursery-ready "Dead Sound." Here, Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo enter their rebellious phase: "Suicide," "D.R.U.G.S.," "Breaking into Cars." Finally putting flesh-to-bone songwise, they really bring the candy this time, starting — literally — with a "Bang!" with its hey-you-kids-gather-round shimmer, and carrying the energy through the assertively crunchy "Gone Forever" and the soaring "Last Dance." After the knockout rush of those first four songs, the rest takes longer to sink in. Let them.
The lyrics put a face on the Raveonettes' borrowed sonics, being mostly tropes about mischief or loss, the latter of which creates quite the dynamic stretch from "Gone Forever"'s haunted summer to "Last Dance"'s last dance to song-of-the-year candidate "Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)."
The group's understatement in categorizing rape as casually as any other pop disappointment ("those fuckers stay in your head") is darkly hilarious, but the song doesn't downplay the gut-wrenching reality either. And if the universality of its bubbly catchiness isn't personal enough for you, the nicely open-ended declarative "destroy" lets you imagine your own satisfying retribution scenario. That "Oh, I Buried You Today" soon follows is merely a suggestion. -
They Say...
The Raveonettes fourth album, In and Out of Control, marks another change in direction for the band, though it's much less noticeable than the shift between the glossy, overproduced Pretty in Black and the raw, noisy, and self-produced Lust Lust Lust. This time out, the duo of Sharin Foo and Sune Rose Wagner decided to record in a studio again, and enlisted the production and songwriting skills of Thomas Troelsen, who's worked with a diverse roster of artists that ranges from Junior Senior to Aqua, to his own excellent groups Private and Superheroes. Anyone fearing a return to the slick sounds that almost ruined the band will be glad to know that while there is more variety and a definite pop feel to the album, there is also plenty of noise and raw power to go around. The subject matter of the lyrics is totally Raveonettes too, touching on "suicide," rape, sadistic girls, heartbreak -- all providing the requisite levels of general malevolence one would expect. What the band and Troelsen do on the album is take the basic noise-plus-melody template that forms the band's core and give it a tweak here and there. Some sunny glockenspiel on "Last Dance," some electronic sound manipulation on "Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed"), and clunky new wave drums on "Breaking into Cars" are some of the touches that brighten things up without diluting the band's intrinsic strengths. In general, the tightly arranged songs and use of different sounds from song to song make it perhaps the most listenable album of their career. It has some of their hookiest songs ("Last Dance," "Suicide," "Bang!"), some of their most ferocious sounding songs ("Break Up Girls!") and their toughest ("Boys Who Rape"), a couple of very pretty ballads ("Oh, I Buried You Today" and "Wine"), and no missteps. Thanks to the production, the performances, and the songs, the Raveonettes have delivered on the renewed promise of Lust Lust Lust and made a very good, almost great, noise-pop album.
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| 01. |  |
Bang! |
2:54 |
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| 02. | |
Gone Forever |
3:36 |
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| 03. | |
Last Dance |
3:47 |
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| 04. | |
Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed) |
3:04 |
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| 05. | |
Heart Of Stone |
3:55 |
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| 06. | |
Oh, I Buried You Today |
1:22 |
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| 07. | |
Suicide |
3:13 |
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| 08. | |
D.R.U.G.S. |
4:30 |
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| 09. | |
Breaking Into Cars |
3:08 |
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| 10. | |
Break Up Girls! |
4:00 |
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| 11. | |
Wine |
3:41 |
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11 Total Tracks, 37:10 Total Length
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Credits
- Richard Gottehrer - Management // Emily Lazar - Mastering // The Raveonettes - Producer // The Raveonettes - Engineer // The Raveonettes - Mixing // Sharin Foo - Group Member // Thomas Troelsen - Producer // Thomas Troelsen - Engineer // Thomas Troelsen - Mixing // Scott Cohen - Management // Joe LaPorta - Mastering // Jonas Hecksher - Artwork // Camilla Stephan - Photography
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