The Ettes “Danger Is EP”

The tracks certainly don’t sound all the same. “No Home” sounds like a Yeah Yeah Yeahs ripoff. “Lo and Behold” has nothing magnetic about it, but it does have that girl group sound I love, whether it’s The Kirby Grips or The Jolenes. “Subject” is more in the Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Pretty Girls Make Graves vein.

“The Rules” is a live song from 2004 in Los Angeles. It has harmonica. Definitely the honky-tonk sass of some other generation. Finally is “I Heard Tell,” which is a live recording from New York City in 2008. It also has the Yeah Yeah Yeahs sound, even more than the others. I guess it is pretty clear what they are trying to do here. They could pick a worse band to emulate; that’s for sure.

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