The Raveonettes- Lust, Lust, Lust

7/10

Best: Lust

Worst: Aly, Walk With Me

Have you even wanted to feel what it’s like to lose your sense of hearing and get a searing migraine? Then step on up and blast the first track “Aly, Walk With Me” off of Denmark’s own Raveonettes’ latest album, Lust, Lust, Lust. For about two agonizing minutes, the stinging reverb would seem to make nails on a chalk board seem like a more desirable experience.

If you can get over the hump of the first track of Lust, you’re on your way to an enjoyable listening experience from the Danish duo’s fourth album. The album as a whole is deep and encompassing with a very involved sound that is surprising to hear coming from just two members. The band claims their greatest influences come from the Velvet Underground and 60s girl group The Ronettes (who partly inspired The Raveonette’s name), and both influences are apparent throughout the band’s past and present albums.

Lust is filled with noise, noise of all sorts that form visuals in your imagination that allows you to float through the entire album, “Aly, Walk With Me” notwithstanding. “Lust” is a sexy/sleepy slow moving track that slinks along and provides the highlight of the album.

Many of the songs vary pace-wise within each track, with portions of the song sounding dopey and then in a snap chugs along with guitar work that isn’t stunning and is sometimes monotonous but is worth a listen nonetheless.

If you still have your hearing after two minutes in hell to start off the album, you’re ears will be healed with a deep ambient album that brings you back to memories of the best of 60s surf rock and The Velvet Underground.

-- Joe Kepler