Lemonade - Lemonade
[True Panther, 2008]

Maybe because of Bubblegum Lemonade, or maybe because of the drink name itself, but you really expect Lemonade to be all twee-pop and sweet. What you get though is a box full of aggressive and jumpy post-punk. The main thing about this debut of San Francisco/Brooklyn trio is danceability. Six tracks only, but starting with the opener, Big Weekend, you get the rhythms of fun as it should be. This is definitely a crazy-party music: Chinese New Year fireworks of Madison Square Garden and the likes… Callan Clendenin’s vocals sound at times a bit sickly and random, like on the industrial rhythms of Unreal, or, at most times, just pure careless and noisy. And the drummer Alex Pasternak must be having fun all the time - banging on everything within his reach.

All in all, Lemonade is noisy, loud and pushy. And at the same time, pretty digestible. Arabic motives (world music is everywhere these days) on Nasifon, a simple 4/4 beat on Blissout - whatever you pick, there’s an internally growing desire to dance. Well, that’s exactly what this music is for.

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