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Chicago's Scissor Girls play a defiantly fractured brand of rock that takes punk aesthetics and slants them with the scratchy post-punk of bands like Wire and the Fall, then takes this in such an extreme, non-pop direction that the results are occasionally reminiscent of Japanese bands like Melt-Banana and the Boredoms. Something about the band's complex sense of guitar work, dynamics and overall organization, however, lends this extremely deconstructive sound a fairly accessible appeal; rather than a no-wave-style attack on music's conventions, the Scissor Girls manage to bring the original excitement of punk back into a musical context where pop-punk has become a fairly banal mainstream sound. We People Space with Phantoms follows this agenda fairly strictly; the 7" and EP tracks collected on Here Is the "Is-Not" have an even more accessible appeal to them.
© Nitsuh Abebe /TiVo
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The Scissor Girls, Primary
1996 Atavistic Atavistic 1996
The Scissor Girls, Primary
1996 Atavistic Atavistic 1996
The Scissor Girls, Primary
1996 Atavistic Atavistic 1996
The Scissor Girls, Primary
1996 Atavistic Atavistic 1996
The Scissor Girls, Primary
1996 Atavistic Atavistic 1996
The Scissor Girls, Primary
1996 Atavistic Atavistic 1996
The Scissor Girls, Primary
1996 Atavistic Atavistic 1996
The Scissor Girls, Primary
1996 Atavistic Atavistic 1996
The Scissor Girls, Primary
1996 Atavistic Atavistic 1996
The Scissor Girls, Primary
1996 Atavistic Atavistic 1996
The Scissor Girls, Primary
1996 Atavistic Atavistic 1996
Album review
Chicago's Scissor Girls play a defiantly fractured brand of rock that takes punk aesthetics and slants them with the scratchy post-punk of bands like Wire and the Fall, then takes this in such an extreme, non-pop direction that the results are occasionally reminiscent of Japanese bands like Melt-Banana and the Boredoms. Something about the band's complex sense of guitar work, dynamics and overall organization, however, lends this extremely deconstructive sound a fairly accessible appeal; rather than a no-wave-style attack on music's conventions, the Scissor Girls manage to bring the original excitement of punk back into a musical context where pop-punk has become a fairly banal mainstream sound. We People Space with Phantoms follows this agenda fairly strictly; the 7" and EP tracks collected on Here Is the "Is-Not" have an even more accessible appeal to them.
© Nitsuh Abebe /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:42:03
- Main artists: The Scissor Girls
- Label: Atavistic
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
1996 Atavistic Atavistic 1996
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