Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls (Rough Trade/ATO)
Hey, I’m a modern guy. I can dig that art in the 21st Century is all about collage and recontextualization. But as collage artists, Alabama Shakes are essentially just ripping a page out of a 1967 issue of Life magazine and showing to us. Actually, that’s giving them too much credit. Life magazine wrote about the world, Alabama Shakes just writes about Alabama Shakes.
The problem with ‘Girl Bands’
Isn’t it about time that we stop pointing out the fact that the band members of The Like and Warpaint all have vaginas?