| Chicks are a revelation. When three girls
- whose collective age won't qualify
them
for a pension for a good few years
- bound
onstage and launch into a tunefree,
thrash-pop
racket, it doesn't augur well. That
said,
they do bound onstage like pop stars,
even
though they're not. Yet. But suddenly
they
pull "Let Me Go" out of the
bag
and there's not only a great tune,
but a
startling voice, too. From here on
in they
show their true colours: there's nothing
brattish about them and they're very
smart.
Truly, they're the daughters of Riot
Grrrl,
a perfect pop Huggy Bear, as their
closing
romp through Bikini Kill's "Rebel
Girl"
(key lyric: "When she sings/I
hear revoloution")
proves. Elsewhere, they appear as the
blessed
union of The Shangri-Las and THe Ramones,
and it doesn't get much better than
that.
Chicks are a good deal cooler than
you already.
Catch up while you still can. |
