The Rogers Sisters

Playlouder - Live Review - 11/24/06

What a night! Not only are CSS on hand to turn the Scala into a sexy place indeed, they’ve brought along our debonair witty favourites 1990s and the criminally underrated Roger Sisters too. PlayLouder’s on hand to wax lyrical ‘bout the Brazilians

Why The Kills and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are so popular and yet The Rogers Sisters remain on the fringes is beyond us. They have all those swirling, moody Mary Chain guitars, even edging into Doorsy psychedelia on the throbbing ‘Your Littlest World’. Nothing is overdone though: there’s no black leather, no try-hard sleaze, nothing is drowned in feedback. Straightforward dirty blues-rock songs like ‘Why Wont You’ are a purebred pleasure, like a cleaned-up, dried out Royal Trux. They indulge in nothing so banal as eye contact, smiling or banter. Class.

WORDS: Emily Mackay
PHOTOS: The Daily Growl
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