Artist The Coathangers
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Bobb Lovett
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The Coathangers
The Coathangers pitch shrill-voiced, whiny post-punk songs that, despite bad lyrical posturing, are surprisingly catchy. The Atlanta-bred babes have managed to take raw, crunchy guitar tunes and turn them into danceable fits of bitchy mayhem. The band’s 2009 album, Scramble on Suicide Squeeze, is antagonistic and feminine, and the four members—guitarist-vocalist Julia Kugel, drummer-vocalist Stephanie Luke, bassist-vocalist Meredith Franco, and keyboardist-vocalist Candice Jones—don’t make apologies for it. The band’s shambolic splay of sounds has been corralled and concentrated on its third full-length, Larceny & Old Lace. All the same elements are in place: no-wave slash, riot-grrrl grit, and the occasional dollop of girl-group pop. But where the band’s previous output strove hard to avoid self-seriousness, that sense of humor has been supplanted by a venomous intensity.
Updated 06/22/2011
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