Artist: Spinnerette
Title: Ghetto Love
Label: Spinnette Music
Genre: Alt. Rock
Bitrate: 216kbit av.
Time: 00:13:14
Size: 21.69 mb
Rip Date: 2009-02-06
Str Date: 2009-03-02
1. Ghetto Love 3:35
2. Valium Knights 2:27
3. Distorting A Code 4:08
4. Bury My Heart 3:04
Release Notes:
The Ghetto Love EP is short and sweet -- four songs of a dark,
electro-infused, guitar-layered punk rock mashup that varies
from song to song in its atmosphere and mood. The opening
title track exudes a dirty party vibe, and it could be easily
imagined as the soundtrack to an evening of excess spent in a
crooked backalley basement party somewhere in the deep, dark
underbelly of a grim, urban industrial landscape.
'Valium Nights' has the band sounding most like the
Distillers, probably due in part to the presence of a
non-electronic drumkit; but also, because the structure of the
song follows a more traditional guitar-driven melody and
without Tony BevilacquaÆs Darker My Love-style guitars wailing
in the background, the song wouldnÆt have been at all out of
place on Coral Fang.
A shock to the system follows with track number 3, "Distorting
the Code," which sees DalleÆs vocal raise in tone to
near-falsetto. The track is undoubtedly dark, again tinged
with electro instrumentation that is minimalist in form
(including some nicely placed keys) as Dalle cries out
hauntingly "I donÆt need the answers when I got no place to
goà How do I find my way back home?"
The familiar and welcoming sound of distorted power chords
returns for the finale, "Bury My Heart," and again, while the
dregs of the Distillers can be detected in this song, Dalle
appears to be charting new ground here, albeit in her own way.
Those expecting her to return to the music scene with an album
of candid love ballads about her new child and love affair
with Josh Homme will be disappointed, as she bleakly drawls
"IÆve been known to waste sanity / I know thereÆs nothing left
In silence / IÆve been known to waste / ItÆs a waste / ItÆs a
wave goodbye."
Overall, this EP is solid, interesting and at times almost
challenging. Some will undoubtedly hate it, especially those
who are acquainted with the earliest Distillers material only.
Others, however, will inevitably love it. Dalle is clearly in
a transitionary phase and it will be interesting to see the
direction that Spinnerette take in the next 12 months, for it
seems that in creative terms Dalle is seeking out uncharted
waters, emancipated by the chains of her former project which
she so clearly felt restrained by.