QUEEN ADREENA - "F.M.DOLL" (NEW RELEASE NOVEMBER 2002) (ROUGH TRADE RECORDS RTRADESCD071)
The more observant of you out there may remember Katy Jane Garside as the bizarrely engaging front ragamuffin with Daisy Chainsaw...
Oh, you don't? Oh well, never mind. Chances are you'll not be able to ignore her so easily this time round, as Queen Adreena - her new-ish vehicle -sound pretty damn in-your-face, at least on the strength of this unsettling single.
Queen Adreena cut their fangs with debut album "Taxidermy" in 2000, but "F.M.Doll" - from the recent "Drink Me" album - tells us to stuff it in an altogether more frightening fashion. Launched on unsightly guitar screes, it settles into a diseased indie-Glam stomp, with Katy Jane puncturing her lungs screaming stuff like: "Strippety strip, while your Daddy is watching!" and new drummer Pete Howard (from the brief final CLASH line-up if memory serves) gets all tribal and heroic.
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If something akin to an uber-twisted Kristin Hersh performing at a witch-ducking upsets you, then don't even try second track "Kissing My Disgrace." This one's positively deranged, coming on like Gregorian chanting monks laying into The Doors' "My Wild Love" with claw hammers.
Not mainstream and definitely not for the faint-hearted, Queen Adreena are nonetheless difficult to write off. As for me: well, now the goose pimples are subsiding, I'm off for a shower. Cold or otherwise. Brrr.
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