Matthew Yglesias (December 04, 2006)

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04 Dec 2006 06:30 pm

Pitchfork thinks Violence is Golden is totally lame: "Everything about "Joy", the first song on their first album, reeks of being 10 years past its best-before date: Sarah Daly lays on the ultra-vixen shtick extra thick ("My love leaves a permanent stain/ I'm in love with my digital toy," she informs us with a curled-lip purr) while her band plods away in a PVC-sleek synth-grunge grind that could've easily scored them the opening slot on an Elastica/Garbage bill, provided Republika or Sleeper weren't available."

That sounded good to me so I downloaded the album off eMusic and . . . it's pretty good. The band is Scanners; MySpace here.

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Have you heard of imonster? They're pretty good. They do that absolute vodka commercial with the absolute man.

Here's their website:

http://www.imonstermusic.com/sights.htm

Posted by A different matt | December 4, 2006 7:35 PM

Fuck it, I liked Elastica.

Posted by justin | December 4, 2006 8:11 PM

Odd. I downloaded it off emusic this morning randomly as well. Haven't listened yet, but I've heard good things.

Posted by Jeff | December 4, 2006 9:09 PM

I liked Elastica AND Garbage. Did reading that review motivate you to download the album? The review seems undistiguished by Pitchfork standards-- neither charmingly perceptive nor engagingly snarky.

(drawing the most tenuous possible connection to Pitchfork: the new Joanna Newsom disc, "Ys," is *outstanding.* Get the CD--the booklet has actual gilded edges.)

Posted by James Gary | December 4, 2006 10:47 PM

Yeah, I liked Elastic, I liked Garbage, and I even liked Republika, damnit.

Posted by Matthew Yglesias | December 4, 2006 10:55 PM

Maybe Pitchfork is bored with Garbage and Elastica, but I'm not yet. Effete snobs.

Posted by NBarnes | December 5, 2006 1:13 AM

Kinda sad, really, to listen to that first Elastica album and think about the promise they had, which disappeared up their noses....

Posted by Thlayli | December 5, 2006 5:44 AM

The mid-90s had great women in rock music: Elastica, Garbage, Lush, Poe, Cibo Matto, the whole riot grrl scene... I can see how you'd be attracted to a band that gets compared to that era.

Where are the women in rock now? Evanescence? Ugh.

Posted by kent | December 5, 2006 9:45 AM

today's elastica-loving p4kers listen to long blondes

"where are the women in rock now?"

looking only at 2006 (but going a bit beyond "rock"):
the knife
the pipettes
el perro del mar
camera obscura
sally shapiro
hello saferide
shrag
the blow
kelly slusher

also, some people (not me) like lily allen. and the yeah yeah yeahs.

...AND there's word that m.i.a. is collaborating with timbaland!

Posted by marc h. | December 5, 2006 10:37 AM

oh, and check out the manhattan love suicides! like a ramshackle, female-fronted jesus & mary chain

Posted by marc h. | December 5, 2006 10:39 AM

www.someonesstory.com

Just....shameless...

Posted by Aaron | December 5, 2006 11:28 AM

Hey Matt,

You should check Elastica's "The Radio One Sessions", available on emusic. It is excellent.

Posted by Samba00 | December 5, 2006 2:48 PM

http://17.forsedsex.info x