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Posted On: November 6th 2007
Posted By: Bryan Kremkau
Source: Vice Records |
Vice Music is ecstatic to announce their newest signing, The Raveonettes. With three critically acclaimed releases under their belt and over 170,000 records sold in the US, the Danish rock duo will release Lust Lust Lust in early 2008, with a US tour to follow.
The Raveonettes' Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo met in Copenhagen in 2001 and recorded their first EP, Whip it On. Soon after, Rolling Stone's David Fricke discovered them at Denmark's SPOT festival and his high praise gained the attention of major labels and magazines. Chain Gang of Love, the band's first full-length record, was released in 2003 and the follow up, Pretty in Black, in 2005.
The Raveonettes are recognized and praised for their signature blend of two part harmonies, lo-fi garage sound and 60s noir aesthetic. Comparisons have been drawn to everyone from the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Velvet Underground and Suicide to Buddy Holly, the Shangri-Las and Ronnie Spektor. In 2003, the Raveonettes' won a Danish Music Award when Whip It On was named "Best Album of the Year".
"Rock & roll's past is a living thing to singer-songwriter-guitarist Sune Rose Wagner. There was no mistaking his precise study and modern love of Buddy Holly balladry and the malt-shop noir of the Shangri-Las inside the hard rains of distortion on this Danish band's first two records....Wagner's vocal interplay with Sharin Foo -- a dazzling spin on girl-group coo and the Gregorian-country blend of the Everly Brothers..." - ROLLING STONE
Press on the band:
"As easily taken for a salute to '60s transistor-radio pop as for Jesus and Mary Chain worship" - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"The Raveonettes are ambitious in their own way, and it works brilliantly." - ALL MUSIC.COM
"Just as their previous fetish for deep distortion and a limited set of chords did, pink-hued noir here can prove to be something of an acquired taste. However, it never sinks into unintentional parody, earning it the acclaim of sounding like nothing else currently out there." - NME
"Cinematic, loaded and decadent." - Q MAGAZINE
"[The Ravenonettes] help to remind us what makes harmless romantic music like Bobby Fuller and the Ronettes so perfectly dark."- FILTER
"A miasma of retro cool." - ALTERNATIVE PRESS
"Strange and provocative". - THE GUARDIAN |
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