Bands don't often get another chance after a bandwagon has left town, but the Raveonettes might be an exception. Six years after emerging in the garage-rock revival that made stars of Scandinavian peers the Hives, their fourth album should put them right back on the map. A pop concoction packed with twangy hooks and dreamy melodies, it sounds like a fantasy fusion of the Phil Spector-produced Ronettes and C86-era indie stars the Primitives. Laden with echo, harmonies and guitar solos, you'd never guess the songs carried slyly subversive sentiments such as Boys Who Rape (Should Be Destroyed), or that Bang! revels in a chorus of "The kids wanna fuck out in the street". They have clearly had a lot of fun making this record, and from the weirdly thrilling melancholy of Last Dance to the Jesus and Mary Chain-style remodel of the Rolling Stones' Heart of Stone, it deserves to be widely heard.
(Fierce Panda)