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Cobra Verde - Haven’t Slept All Year
Alternative Press - Editorial Intern on 6/1/09 @ 5:49 PM - altpress.com

[3.5/5]
Cobra Verde's tunes on Haven't Slept All Year realize the debauchery implied by the album's title. Year's leering glitter-glam, youth-riot power-pop and grimy synthpop echo the greats: David Bowie, the New York Dolls, New Order, Big Star and Judas Priest among many others. Album opener "World Can't Have Her" is a crunchy garage-rock explosion, while the classic-rock "Riot In The Foodcourt" features gang-vocal choruses and the immortal howl, "I'm in love with strippers on drugs." The seedy jazz-club number "Wasted Again" is just as blunt: As a grimy muted trumpet wails in the background, a boisterous chorus exclaims, "Wasted again, and I like it!/Wasted again, and I want you!" Glamorous decay and excessive partying has never sounded sexier, dirtier or more fun. (SCAT; scatrecords.com) Annie Zaleski

Official Website: http://www.cobraverde.com/



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