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CSS's music is almost immediately infectious and surprisingly poppy.
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Lots of handclaps, woo woo backing vocals, and laughs amid funny observations about contemporary urban hipster life reveal an assured and charming debut.
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80Crucially, CSS skilfully weave references not only to our OK magazine neurosis but the last few decades of music too, with a sophisticated mash of indie, '80s pop, disco and electro.
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CSS's debut is the real deal: eleven cuts of infectiously syncopated, tuneful post-punk that just may be the summer's perfect soundtrack. [#14]
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80An exceptional debut.
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80There's a gleeful, shonky exuberance to this debut all their own. [Aug 2006, p.88]
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80Their 11 post-punk/hip-hop songs are brittle, but catchy and fun. [Sep 2006, p.107]
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Quite an impressive start. [Aug 2006, p.206]
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80They sound like an unlikely, brilliantly wrong fusion of Tom Tom Club, dance culture and the Fall.
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Cansei de Ser Sexy works not because of its ability to break new musical ground but because of its ability to borrow from other influences and use them in new ways to avoid sounding totally contrived.
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There's not a song on the album that isn't catchy as all hell, but there are times when CSS... sound like Cibo Matto performing covers of The Shaggs.
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If it weren't all so much fun, CSS would be really objectionable. But if it wasn't so objectionable, it certainly wouldn't be this much fun.
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70They're not the kind of band that ages well... [but] one hot summer is all they need. [Aug 2006, p.107]
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The record is very reminiscent of the Sounds' 2006 release Dying to Say This to You, because of the sassy, provocative vocals as well as the overall mood.
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A gleeful throwback to early-1980's art-school pop.
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70If only they can iron out this dichotomy between their more sophisticated looks at twenty-something hipster love and these over-the-top sex-me cuts, CSS could last longer than just being your latest summer crush.
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65Cansei De Ser Sexy is an intriguing group with a lot of budding talent and real potential.
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64As assured as it is unfinished. [#21, p.95]
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Once all is done and danced – in under 35 minutes – there's no immediate desire to go around again.
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60When they stop arching their eyebrows and put some work into doing time-tested pop stuff, they can be great.
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60It succeeds in the same subversive manner Peaches did six years ago. [Jul/Aug 2006, p.118]
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It's often quite wonderful, occasionally pretty woeful, but endearingly frantic and chaotic.
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58Basically, Cansei De Ser Sexy sounds like a thirty minute dance party full of shouted vocal lines and vapid lyrics.
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Cansei de Ser Sexy is a catchy, brief, and sweaty romp, but nothing that will wow, nothing that'll smart, nothing that'll leave a phone number next to the dildo on the bedside table the morning after.
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50All the elements for a smart, catchy dance-rock album seem to be in place, but the final product still remains slightly unstructured and rehashed.
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40These flat-voiced, fleetingly funky gangsta rips are too detached to be adorable. [Aug 2006, p.76]
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Cansei de Ser Sexy is just so acutely gaudy and trashy that, despite an abundance of spunk and sneer, it comes off as disaffected and impossibly irritating.
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