Provocative in name, and after a couple of great EPs, the Manhattan four-piece are now fully released in LP form, with their infectiously catchy, witty, punchy, dirty electro-cyber-punk-pop, influenced in part by The Slits and girl-punk era of the late 1970s, new wave, horror and anime, and self-described as “a scantily clad Creature from the Black Lagoon”. They have a range of talents across the fields of music, film, publishing, and fashion, and also playfully carry the tag “sex-positive alien amoeba entity”. Their band name is shortened to cg8 for radio play, but here is the fully uncensored version, and a. set of fabulous songs, raw and raucous, feminist and foul-mounted but also cleverly crafted. It’s not all shouts and screams from Lida Fox, Veronika Vilim, Avishag Cohen Rodrigues and Chase Lombardo however, and there’s a range of dynamics and sounds across synths and guitars, and vocals that are sexual, sensual, sharp, serious and also entertainingly silly. Standouts include the hysterical, hyper-speed opener Karma Police with full-on unflinching lyrics (“The police came / I was blеssed until I took a fucking rest (They wouldn't swab) / Why do you think we call the feminine receptive?”); the catchy tongue-in-cheek intellectual feminist Ahhhh!hhhh! (i don't wanna go), Hysteria!, which is surprisingly a calmer number, while UTI moves into a thumping full-on explicit infectious acid punk: “I gotta BV-thing / From a fingering-ing … I think I feel a yeast-sting / From a cunniling-ing"), Simulation, and all the way to the more serene, rather beautiful, hopeful, wistful synth closer Something New: “What if we find / We could have been something all the time?” Full of surprises, vigorously refreshing, frank, mischievous and fun. Out on 4AD.
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