Here we go again. I guess the "whiny chick" faze that music seems to be going through has just somehow passed me by. I never would have guessed I would ever hear New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" as a love song, but Frenté did it. Other than that, nothing stuck in my head as even remotely interesting. There are five originals on the 7-song EP and none of them stayed in my head longer than a split second after the song was over.

A little about the band's lead singer, Angela Heart. She was 17 years old when she joined the band. She says that while she was not naive, she was young. To have someone so young singing these words with so much cynicism probably struck people as kind of twisted.

Now what you the reader needs to know is that this band has acquired a devoted following in Australia and was voted Best New Band by the Austalian Rolling Stone Readers Poll just 18 months after their first gig. Their first album which Mammoth Records will release later this year topped their independent charts in their homeland and brought the band much acclaim and attention.

The album is just in time to join the ranks of the Juliana Hatfield Three, Belly, the Breeders and any of those other bands featuring a female lead singer. My opinion is just that though and the radio stations do not seem to agree with me. They are playing "Bizarre Love Triangle" every other hour and I saw a video for the title track to the album on MTV, so maybe I am the only one out here in musicland who is tried of hearing women "whine" about how hard love is and how many times they have been hurt. Maybe if one of these bands would come up with a new way to showcase their unusual talents, they could make it out of the "One album, one good year of play time" syndrome.

Reviewer:  C. Thomas, courtesy of Flash Magazine.