Music Review

Lust Lust Lust (2008)

The Raveonettes

Reviewed by Leah Greenblatt | Feb 15, 2008

Leah Greenblatt

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EW's GRADE

A-

Details Release Date: Feb 19, 2008; Lead Performance: The Raveonettes; Genre: Rock

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THE RAVEONETTES Lust Lust Lust is one to love, love, love

Danish boy-girl duo the Raveonettes' fourth CD crackles like a transmission from some spectral AM radio station — one playing tunes from the supergroup that, in an alternate universe, the Ronettes, My Bloody Valentine, and the Velvet Underground formed on a lost weekend. Laced with languid two-part harmonies, fuzz-addled feedback, and bittersweet Spector melodics, Lust Lust Lust is a gauze-wrapped cocoon of an album: too opaque to break through to a wide audience, but all the more precious for its enigmatic, slow-to-surface charms. A-
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Originally posted Feb 15, 2008 Published in issue #979 Feb 22, 2008 Order article reprints

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