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The AnAesthetics - The AnAesthetics
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They told us they loved us, they even mailed us banana candy. Sure they were
just using us for a review, but you know what, it works. We may be a cheap
little slut of a website, but at least we know it. Artists with integrity,
you may very well want to go elsewhere. Although have you read the rest of
the crap out there about true indie music? You’ll be back.
That said we probably would have reviewed this even without the joy of sugary,
chemically colored and flavored candy goodness. Six songs, over and done
with in a mere sixteen minutes or so, it is fast, sweet, rowdy, loud, and
strangely sexy. Sign me up to their fan club now.
 Built around the voice of Andrea DeLesDernier - a Deborah Harry for a new
millennium - ‘The AnAesthetics’ are creators of pop punk with fine guitar
work and a tight rhythm section. Nothing here is that innovative or original,
but it is all top class, so who cares anyway.
Breaking with Indie Monkey convention, lets work backwards through the tracks.
They end with a 1.40 minute cover of ‘White Rabbit’, I am sure the Jefferson
Airplane fans of the world are rolling over in their graves right now. For
the rest of us though, it is a lot of fun.
Before that we have ‘High & Low’, a song about spicing up a boring relationship.
Featuring a classic guitar riff, and a sing-along chorus, it is a cracking
little song. Track four is ‘The Legend of Big Bob’ an attempt to do punk-country,
with a side of roots-blues. It doesn’t 100% work, and seems a little out
of place amongst the rest of what is essentially an EP. You could have slipped
it into a ‘real’ album without a problem, but on such an in-your-face outing
as this you really can’t afford to stop the train mid-ride.
Prior to that we had the wonderfully angry ‘Shut Up’. Apparently it is Andrea’s
reply to all those talking-head Feminists out there. More fine guitar work
atop the rhythm. This band is a really good example of everyone blending
very well. The lyrics are very well done, the vocal delivery is fine, and
the music matches everything. Top rate.
 Track two is ‘Big Kids’, another fine little tune that at a whole three and
a half minutes is of epic proportions by these guys standards. The CD opens
with ‘NRG’ which is a cracking little tune that showcases some fine bass
work, and is apparently about sexual attraction to a stranger in a grocery
store. She was probably there to buy the candy.
‘The AnAesthetics’ are a damn fine band who throw out perfect little punk-pop
gems at whim. If you want something to get you jumping and to once and for
all prove that female singers don’t need to be ‘whinny little chicks’, then
here you go.
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