CSS Are Off The Hook!

31/01/2007

Like nothing else to have emerged from 2006 (and still going full throttle), it is with a mountain of critical acclaim behind them, and fast becoming “as unstoppable as next week” (NME), that Sao Paulo 6 piece CSS release their latest single ‘Off The Hook’ on Sire/Sub Pop on Feb 26 2007.

Having blazed a steadily widening trail across Europe’s (unanimously sold out) venues and press since the original release of the band’s debut album (‘Cansei de Ser Sexy’) in July 2006, and their potential/appeal seemingly multiplying by the day, CSS sit alongside any new band you’d care to name as one of the great hopes for 2007. Peerless to many, they capture something wholly unique not to mention lacking in pretension, despite the mounting press attention, and fluttering of industry eyelids. Musically, they’re something else, mashing together electro, punk, pop (in large quantities) and rock with a measure of both playfulness and reverence befitting a bunch of Brazilian creative misfits.

‘Off The Hook’ is the latest single to be taken from the band’s acclaimed debut album. It’s signature CSS driven by deceivingly basic, yet near-perfect pop guitar riffs, at its core equally celebrating and deriding pop sentiments. ‘Why is it we’re standing so still, people gonna think we’re statues / Silence is disturbing me, people talk but I don’t hear / I’m off the hook…You’re right, this is really fun/ I never felt this dumb before” Lovefoxxx repeats in her endearingly broken accent. Ridiculous in it’s vacuousness, but still somehow wholly intoxicating…this track is emblematic of pop culture in it’s finest hour.

With extensive touring in ever-enlargening venues (as part of the NME Awards in February as well as their own headline shows across Europe in Feb and April), the re-release of their album, and Summer festival appearances amongst other things cemented on the horizon over the coming months, enthusiasm for this phenomenal band shows no signs of waning in 2007. Word of advice: get yourself a Brazilian.

Lovefoxxx – vocals Adriano Cintra – drums, guitar, vocals, production Carolina Parra – guitar, drums Ana Rezende – guitar, harmonica Luiza Sá – guitar, drums, keys Iracema Trevisan – bass

The band’s debut album ‘Cansei de Ser Sexy’ will be re-released on Sire/Sub Pop on March 5.

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