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| Rollingstone |
 These New York dance rockers are definitely not virgins. Their debut screams debauchery, with its funk- and disco-spiked odes to oversexed debutantes and every club kid's favorite meal, "cocaine brunch." Such subject matter has inspired some bad records over the years, but the Virgins have a knack for songcraft — scrabbling funk verses that surge into singalong rock choruses — and a charismatic frontman who delivers stellar aphorisms and insults. "Maybe if you change your hair/You'd be good enough," Donald Cumming sneers in "Fernando Pando." He knows of what he sings: Cumming has been a fixture of New York's downtown demimonde since he was 16, making films and modeling for hip young photographer Ryan McGinley. But he's done plenty of book learning, too, drawing on Lou Reed and the late-Seventies Rolling Stones: "She's Expensive" lifts its groove from "Miss You." Cumming has the swagger down, but there are surprising depths in songs like "Love Is Colder Than Death." These roués know well that when the last afterparty ends, spiritual malaise lingers....full text |
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| Nme |
| When you’ve spent most of your short transatlantic career drumming it into folk you’re actually from Manhattan and most definitely not part of the trendy band bonanza taking place across the river in Brooklyn, it must be a bit galling, at your first high-profile UK show of 2009, to be enthusiastically introduced as “The Virgins, from Brooklyn!” If it narks the band though, they don’t let it show, and frontman Donald Cumming leads his five-man gang (only three of whom are full-time Virgins) straight into the slick yacht-rock of ‘Teen Lovers’....full text |
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| Slantmagazine |
| Having already been featured on Gossip Girl and having received a good deal of blog hype following the 2007 release of a five-song EP, NYC art-kid quartet the Virgins make the jump to the big leagues with their self-titled major label debut. Without the Strokes's independently wealthy disaffect or Vampire Weekend's prep-school frame-of-reference, the Virgins are more approachable and an easier band to root for than many of the city's other high profile Next Big Things. With all five of the songs from their EP accounted for in much more polished versions, The Virigns is a catchy, if not exactly groundbreaking, debut. Lead single "Rich Girls" is the obvious standout and its slicker studio version is an improvement from the already plenty-good rough cut that made the blog rounds late last year. That single also articulates the band's aesthetic, which borrows heavily from the dance-punk of Interpol and especially from the sharp style of Franz Ferdinand's rhythm section. On the excellent opener "She's Expensive" and the wry narrative of "Murder," the Virgins actually foreground their disco and funk influences even more prominently than Franz Ferdinand, giving the record a persistent, engaging groove that works as a grittier, less smug alternative to the likes of Maroon 5. Refreshingly unpretentious, especially by the standards of heavily hyped bands, and as simply entertaining as any recent major label debut, Virgins strikes a careful balance between fashionable and accessible, which makes the band a good candidate for a real commercial breakthrough....full text |
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