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Single Review
1990s See You At The Lights Rough Trade
Article written by
Ged M - May 8, 2007
Though 1990s might have sprung from two ‘name’ bands (Yummy Fur and V-Twin), they’re completely without pose and pretence. It’s just good time rock’n’roll fun, typified by ‘See You At The Lights’. Drenched in ba-ba-bas and with a neat chorus, it brings to mind the same sharp pop as former bandmates Franz Ferdinand. The CD also comes with two products of their Brazilian adventure: ‘Super-Legal’, with vocals from CSS’s Lovefoxx, is melodic punk-pop while ‘Diabo’ is something else: slower and longer (7 minutes) than most 1990s songs, it’s intense, bass-driven and rhythmic, and quite retro-sounding, like Jefferson Airplane doing White Rabbit using black magic. A bit like Bobby Gillespie, Jackie McKeown and friends are about breathing new life into old sounds.