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Underscores that the band still has more vitality and ideas than most other artists associated with that [electroclash] trend ever did.
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One big loud glam rock electro-pop explosion of an album.
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FilterTheir funk-electro-industrial-art-pop-noise is so tight, you might forget that they began life as a Munich art school project. [#13, p.97]
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Rolling StoneA riot: smart chicks who use brain-crushing beats and refrigerated New Wave riffs to critque bourgeois liberals and the fashion-industrial complex. [28 Oct 2004, p.100]
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Replaces the cheap sounds of their earlier records with more traditional sonics, which leave the often-clever lyrics feeling like an afterthought.
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BlenderPicture a protest of the World Trade Organization led by Bananarama. [Nov 2004, p.131]
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It's funny and smart and a little annoying in large doses.
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The Chicks on Speed brand of girl power won't scare a Geri Halliwell fan, but their chatty cynicism might make them question their ideals.
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This album contains unprecedented levels of female vocal annoyance.
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UrbThe whole act is a gimmick, for sure, and one that wears itself thin awfully quick. [Nov 2004, p.98]
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StevePSep 19, 2005While the album may be abrasive at first, further listening becomes addictive.