| Think of a 21st Century T-Rex meets Love &
Rockets and you're barking up the right pant leg. The groovy strut
of "Flaunt It Like This" has all the goods to get great phones on
your station's specialty show and slip into your big show (i.e.
mainstream airplay)
– ALBUM NETWORK
Every track on this album is optimized for use
in film productions. That's what these cats are all about, hell-bent
on stardom through music and celluloid. "Flaunt It Like This" and
"Bang Bang Love" seem to pave the way for the Dead Stars, while
"Planet Girl" is suitable for sickly sweet flattery for any awestruck
chick.
– IN MUSIC WE TRUST
Anthems For The Friendly-Fire Generation EP
From the computer-manipulated spoken word, introduction to
the final glam-slam guitar riff, this EP is dressed for excess and
then some. Opener "Prozac Smile" is the sort of anthem to prescription-drug
love your average indie band wouldn't touch with a 10-foot feather
boa. Kneel Cohn's vocals have all the sneer of Donovan Leitch on
a bender in Chelsea. "Bang Bang Love" is like Gene Loves Jezebel's
"Desire" recast for the 21st century. Imagine Poison doing T. Rex
covers, or if Ministry had stuck with their early dance origins.
It's trashy and flashy and it gets all Barbarella in all the right
places.
– JAMIE S. RICH (Mercury) |