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| Guardian |
 bandwagon has left town, but the Raveonettes might be an exception. Six years after emerging in the garage-rock revival that made stars of Scandinavian peers the Hives, their fourth album should put them right back on the map. A pop concoction packed with twangy hooks and dreamy melodies, it sounds like a fantasy fusion of the Phil Spector-produced Ronettes and C86-era indie stars the Primitives. Laden with echo, harmonies and guitar solos, you'd never guess the songs carried slyly subversive sentiments such as Boys Who Rape (Should Be Destroyed), or that Bang! revels in a chorus of "The kids wanna fuck out in the street". They have clearly had a lot of fun making this record, and from the weirdly thrilling melancholy of Last Dance to the Jesus and Mary Chain-style remodel of the Rolling Stones' Heart of Stone, it deserves to be widely heard....full text |
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| Popmatters |
“Bang! You’re so vicious, baby.” Now that’s how you start a record. We know we’re in Raveonettes territory from those opening chimes, and frankly, I can’t think of a better way to spend the season. The leaves are starting to fall, there’s a chill in the air, and rock’s most melancholy Danes are back with album number four. The follow-up to the magnificent Lust Lust Lust, In and Out of Control has a lot to live up to.
It’s perfect that the Raveonettes hail from frozen Copenhagen—their sound is seriously chilly. Take the icy charms of second track “Gone Forever”, which has all the romantic warmth of a dead fish. It’s not that the Danish duo is ironic or disaffected; it’s more a question of musical inclination—they like it cool, and they like it sharp. Though the Raveonettes takes their cues from classic girl groups like the Ronettes and the Shangri-Las, their sound is anything but straightforward nostalgia. By mixing My Bloody Valentine feedback with dance beats and retro winks, this duo combines so many different influences that they manage to sound completely unique....full text |
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| Pitchfork |
"We didn't sell millions of albums, and we didn't become an arena-packing band. I could have predicted that," Sune Rose Wagner wrote in anticipation of In and Out of Control, his fourth proper album with co-Raveonette Sharin Foo. Yeah, we could have predicted that, too. In fact, we expected a lot less from the Raveonettes: After two great records (the debut EP Whip It On, followed by the markedly better full-length Chain Gang of Love), it became fairly clear that these Danes were destined to remain faithful to a singular trick (the overblown Jesus and Mary Chain/ Phil Spector fanaticism; eyeliner), always well-rehearsed and respectfully researched. But by the time their make-or-break mainstream offering Pretty in Black showed up, most interest in their reverb-addled, shooby-doo-wop indulgences had waned. It made waiting a few years for Crystal Stilts pretty easy.
But with their return-to-loud third album Lust Lust Lust, we found a band embracing their failure to launch, reconnecting with (and latching more tightly to) a sound they so lovingly cultured. So you could almost call In and Out of Control a sophomore effort of sorts: "Now I tremble in New York City, the times we had were the best, yeah baby," sings Wagner on "Gone Forever", a fantastically dispiriting, too-old-for-this-shit sequel to Chain Gang's "New York Was Great". Less gorgeously noisy than Lust, Control makes up for all that grand recklessness in its sure-footing and execution. A glance at the track listing might persuade one to think that this affair will prove assuredly more "out of control" than "in" ("Suicide", "D.R.U.G.S.", "Breaking Into Cars"), but most of these songs invert the anticipated and adopt a playfulness that's both disquietingly funny and humbly self-referential....full text |
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