Cover girls: Lesbians on Ecstasy creates joyous and outlandish riffs on dyke classics.Every subset of lesbian culture has its own soundtrack. Are you a leather-jacketed Melissa Etheridge lover? A flannel-clad Indigo Girls Indigo Girls are an American folk rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They got their start in Atlanta as a regular act at The Little 5 Points Pub and were tangentially part of the Athens, Georgia college rock scene that included The B-52's, Pylon, R.E.M. enthusiast? A tattooed Team Dresch Team Dresch is a queercore band who performed and recorded in the 1990s and made a significant impression on that movement, as well as on the independent music scene. In the 2000s the band reformed and continue to perform. fan? Now all these constituencies can get down at the same party thanks to Lesbians on Ecstasy--a Montreal band that dusts off standards from the lesbian I songbooks and reimagines them as electronic dance anthems that everybody can shake a leg to. Sultry songs become ominous and aggressive in the hands of the Lesbians. In "Kundstant Kroving," an industrial remake of k.d. lang's similarly titled hit, the verse's melody turns into a violent synthesizer synthesizer Machine that electronically generates and modifies sounds, frequently with the use of a digital computer, for use in the composition of electronic music and in live performance. lift as singer Frankie Fearless snarls in a voice laden with horror-movie effects. The Lesbians' version of Tracy Chapman's "Revolution" brilliantly tips a hat to two pioneers of revolutionary music: The edgily funky bass and jagged guitars evoke Marxist postpunkers Gang of Four, and the chorus's excited shouts refer to riot grrrl progenitors
The Progenitors were a race of fictional beings in the Star Trek Universe created by Gene Roddenberry. Bikini Kill. And don't miss "Closer to the Dark," a dizzyingly postapocalyptic reinvention of the Indigo Girls' "Prince of Darkness." The tracks oil tiffs invigorating in·vig·or·ate tr.v. in·vig·or·at·ed, in·vig·or·at·ing, in·vig·or·ates To impart vigor, strength, or vitality to; animate: "A few whiffs of the raw, strong scent of phlox invigorated her" debut album aren't exactly covers; some share only four words or a single rift with the original songs. Few people will be familiar with all the references, which range from mainstream lesbian icons like Etheridge and lang to defunct Canadian indie bands like Parachute Club and Fifth Column; you may fund yourself wishing for some footnotes. But you don't have to know all the source material to know that Lesbians on Ecstasy are serious fun--and to realize that you have no choice but to join the party. Marcus 'writes about music for Time Out New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and is political editor at Heeb. |
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