Animal Stencils

I’ve seen the Raveonettes a few times. All of them were at the Magic Stick in Detroit. I don’t think any show had more than 50 people there. They were on Sony at the time and it baffled me that a major label band could have a small turnout.

I was trying to find a review of a Roland Juno Di that didn’t read like a catalog description when I saw an article on the new Raveonettes album In and Out of Control. The first sentence of the article said, “What if someone convinced you to shed everything about yourself that characterized you? Would you still be yourself?” I nearly puked when I read that so I had to check out the album.

I went to iTunes to hear a sample. After I cleaned the puke off my headphones to listen to a song, I was pleased. I wouldn’t say it’s an extreme departure. They still sound like the Jesus and Mary Chain but more like Darklands than Psychocandy. If I were the critic I would have written they recorded a pretty album that isn’t as distortion saturated as the past 8 years. I’m downloading the album right now.

~Chris