The Rogers Sisters

Post Gazette - Invisible Deck Review - 03/23/06

THE ROGERS SISTERS ‘THE INVISIBLE DECK’ (TOO PURE)

Well, they are from Brooklyn. And it’s not impossible to hear that in the spastic dance-punk rhythms driving many of the album’s highlights. But there’s more to this than that. The lead-off track is practically garage-punk, with its meaty fuzz-guitar riff and its primal almost Troggs-like drumming. Lead-off single, “Never Learn to Cry,” revisits spunky New Wave popcraft, recalling the B-52’s in its quirkier vocal approach (which also fuels such highlights as the noise-infested “Money Matters” and the giddy, straight-up party track, “The Clock”). They go all dreamy-psychedelic on the droning, nearly seven-minute epic “Your Littlest World,” complete with haunting flute and a wall of distortion. And several tracks are sent out with a pummeling, almost hard-rock precision and force, a tough side reinforced by the muscular vocals of the lone non-female member of the trio, Miyuki Furtado (who’s in no danger of being compared to Fred Schneider).
—Ed Masley

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