The Rogers Sisters

Scotsman.com - Invisible Deck Review - 04/13/06

The Rogers Sisters: The Invisible Deck ****
TOO PURE

THIS is what Le Tigre would sound like if they didn’t shriek so much or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs if everything they wrote didn’t sound so forced. Like their peers, the Rogers Sisters – Jennifer and Laura plus Hawaii-born honorary sister Miyuki Furtado injecting some testosterone – are also a New York-based trio, influenced by their hometown’s punk, post-punk and punk-funk heritage. And did we mention punk? The Rogers Sisters are punk, as in pugnacious, clamouring, spunky, spikey, DIY and rock’n’roll. They don’t overthink their music – often, they don’t think much beyond the scrappy surf punk of the B-52s, whose abrasive twin vocal attack the girls’ voices most resemble – but what emerges is a liberated supermarket sweep of best of the NY no-wave sound.

Fiona Sheperd

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