The Rogers Sisters are from New York and sound like they were born 25 years too late. If all the members of Blondie and Talking Heads were dead they would be rolling in their graves. I’ve no problem with taking influence from an era but trying to recreate it in such an awful way is obscene.
Too Pure
Emotion Control is formulaic post punk boredom. Both tracks are dull and unremarkable. I can only assume that The Rogers Sisters have learned everything from an arcane textbook called How to Sound like a Dozen New Wave Bands at Once, the guitars have chorus and phaser effects on them at the expected places, the vocals are cool non-singing chants with a quirky accent and there’s even a fucking saxophone on “The Conversation,” and I say bollocks to all that. The Rogers Sisters are another nu wave band jumping on the bandwagon (and the axels are about to give on that baby). If I wanted something from the past to return in a distasteful manner I’ll stick with the inevitable indigestion from my forthcoming Christmas dinner.
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