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Review: 'Courettes,The'
'Back In Mono'   

-  Label: 'Damaged Goods Records'
-  Genre: 'Sixties' -  Release Date: '15.10.21.'-  Catalogue No: 'DAMGOOD560'

Our Rating:
Following on from the two albums on one Cd re-issue of The Courettes first two albums earlier in the year, is the bands third album Back In Mono, and yes it is recorded in fabulous Mono. The Courettes are a Danish Brazilian duo of Martin and Flavia Couri who play like they are Phil Spectors latest protege's in 1968.

The album opens with the shimmy and shake of Want You! Like A Cigarette, yes they think your that addictive and that they will need that much treatment to get over you, this is a solid blast of 60's girl group drama that this duo specialize in and yes it sounds great in fabulous Mono.

I Can Hardly Wait opens like a Shangri La's style pop heartbreaker a feeling only added too by the castanets used to emphasize some of the lyrics of this song of longing and lust for that man you can't wait to see again.

Hey Boy could be a long lost song by The Shirelles, it has that 60's sweet yet lustful feel to it as they wall of sound built by this duo makes you want to shake some talc on the dancefloor and do some spins and drops to this.

Night Time (The Boy Of Mine) is a great song for the fun and games they have during the Night Time and you can be sure that Flavia gets that Boy of hers to do exactly what she wants him to.

R.I.N.G.O. is a sweetly cheesy 60's style pop song of lust and desire for Dick Starkey, as she wants him far more than she wants the other three mop tops, well we all have our own peculiar fetishes and this is Flavia's.

Until You're Mine will leave you in no doubt that they won't stop playing or singing until you give in and tell Flavia you'll be hers, and if not she'll hug you to death while Martin attacks you with his castanets.

Trash Can Honey is a great little garage trash song of rejection as she sends you and all your sordid ways to that Trash Can and don't ever think you're getting back in her life, as that guitar solo makes plain your history.

Hop The Twig is a new dance craze in the grand tradition of mad dance crazes from the 1950's, so come on lets all figure out how to Hop The Twig there may be a clue in the video go on Hop Hop.

Misfits & Freaks are all having a party at the end of the world, like they have all survived some major catastrophe and the only music that now makes sense, thrills them like The Ronettes did, so go on go out and freak out on the streets to this.

My One And Only Baby sounds like it should be a Shangri La's style heartbreaker and that all her begging and pleading will come to nothing as you won't leave your current love, but well maybe the lyrics are less twisted than the Shangri La's often were.

Too Late To Say I'm Sorry says it all in the title, yes she's messed up again and is all alone as you've gone and aren't coming back, not after that, as the strings come in to really ramp up the melodrama.

Edge Of My Nerves is a bile ridden song spitting barbs at the Caveman who has irked her and done everything wrong, it's time he learnt how to be a new man, far newer than the garage stomp that this song is, as Flavia screams and yelps at the End Of Her Nerves.

Won't let you go is a soda shop pop blast as they keep telling us they Won't Let You Go with great backing vocals and the sort of sound that should have people singing along to it in no time at all.

The album closes with Cry Cry Cry that's every bit the tearjerker for the end of a relationship as the title suggests and a nicely dramatic way to end another great album from The Courettes.

Find out more at https://damagedgoods.co.uk/discography/the-courettes-back-in-mono/ https://www.facebook.com/courettes



  author: simonovitch

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