Following the recent UK release of 2004’s ‘Three Fingers’ LP, The Rogers Sisters’ ‘Emotion Control’ 7-inch is the first new material by the celebrated Brooklyn trio to reach these shores.
Together with honorary Rogers Miyuki, sisters Jennifer and Laura have successfully captured the garage angst of ‘Emotion Control’, a long-term fixture of their frenetic live shows. Jennifer’s cut-glass guitar playing hovers menacingly over garage bass and drums, swooping occasionally as the urgent confusion of Miyuki’s repeated chant ‘I want, don’t want, I want to be free, don’t want it, I want it’ builds in intensity.
B-side ‘The Conversation’ starts off sounding like it wants to be a Jam tune, before thankfully exploring more interesting territory, blending concise reportage lyrics, new wave spikiness, reggae rhythms and a wailing saxophone sound transmitted by John Coltrane via X-Ray Spex.
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