It's still too early to say whether our first listen of CSS's forthcoming Donkey is representative of an overarching shift to slicker and new wavier studio sounds, or is just a one-off radio single, but this heavily pixilated official video shows that whatever the aural aura, Lovefoxxx will dress like everyday is art school graduation day. The camera occasionally whips around too fast to tell if the clip's slyly stitched together multiple takes, but they're going for a single-shot effect, with the band standing in a sloppy line on a huge soundstage under strobes and Lovefoxxx falling (and Fall-ing) all over the place.
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Even if the track doesn't get too spunky, you can tell Lovefoxxx hasn't outgrown her energy. The song isn't bad necessarily, but I'm hoping they balance the calculated punk takes with the off-kilter anthems. That's what made CSS different, at a time when most everything sounds the same. I can always pull at random from the promo pile for compressed and gated post-punk stuff. To go:
CSS - "Rat Is Dead (Rage)" (MP3)
Donkey is out 7/22 via Sub Pop.
