*A note to all people reading my reviews: My reviews are designed to be short, concise and to the p...
*A note to all people reading my reviews: My reviews are designed to be short, concise and to the point. I don't like reviewing each track individually, I prefer to highlight the best tracks and the worst tracks for downloaders.
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Indie Rave. The latest term derived from the NME to describe a new type of music, in this case, dancy indie pop music which may cause some neon clothing disasters. Of course, it is a horrible term, but it has produced some excellent albums in the past year.
One of these is the debut from Brazilian band, Cansei De Ser Sexy, or more commonly known as CSS. What this band have done is create a sound which could be classed easily as pop, disco, or dance, yet is broad with it. In essence, it is a pop album, and an eccentric one at that. First, the lyrics are completely uncensored and cover sex from a thousand different angles, as well as pretentious artists and music being 'beach houses. Yes really.
Opening track 'CSS Suxx' is a throwaway intro, but a dancy one, with it's repetitive line of the title over a splash of guitars and drums. It gets a lot better after that, with the strong indie pop of 'Patins' to the punk dance of 'Alala' and the complete disco stomp of 'Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above', the first single and album highlight. There are more highlights coming from the aggressive 'Artbitch' to the pop of 'Off The Hook' and 'Music Is My Hot Hot Sex'.
Yet the thing that really makes this an album is, first track and tiresome 'Fuckoff Is Not The Only Thing You Have To Show' aside, there isn't really anything in the way of filler, with a lot of songs on the CD a potential future single. It is an album full of exciting rhythms that injects a much needed shot of sex and fun into the sometimes over serious business. It is the sound of a band having a great time writing and playing music, and trying to have as much fun as possible. And good for them, as they've released one of the best albums from 2006, and written a lot of great pop songs on the way.
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are five girls and one guy from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Don't expect indigenous sounds of the shanty town, though: Cansei De Ser Sexy is proof that disco-punk is now a...
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Advantages: Different, full of energy with some bad ass tracks Disadvantages: Inconsistent overall but there is definite talent that is beginning to emerge