I've been on a Christmas kick lately - and actually, I hope to write about a few holiday albums in the next few days so that at least a bit of that listening time can be translated into albums written about for this project - so last night I did my annual Christmas show on the radio version of Out the Other. To keep things interesting, and to make people forgive me for jumping the gun and doing the show on the very first day of December, I decided to play rather rare-ish new holiday tunes - indie rock original kinda stuff, or newer versions of traditional tunes with a lovely twist.
One of the holiday tunes I played was a cover of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" by The Raveonettes, and today at work I was reminded of their most recent album, Lust Lust Lust, which came out back in February. Since I'm shifting into "2008 in review" gear, I put it on, and spent the rest of the morning up to my neck in reverb.
That sounds like a negative thing - and it's not - but listening to Lust Lust Lust today reminded me why I enjoyed the album early in the year but never really kept it in rotation. It's gorgeous - and now that I've heard "Dead Sound" again I'm realizing it might be in consideration for favorite songs of '08 - but there's also something that can get a little dark (and maybe repetitive) about all the echo-ey harmonies and fuzz and booming guitars. This is an album I have to be in the mood to listen to, and unfortunately when I'm in 95% of my moods that are well-suited for a particular album, I fail to remember exactly what album I'm in the mood to listen to and I never dig that record out again. It takes listening to a Christmas tune by the same artist to remind me there are other things in their catalog.
That said, I should really keep Lust Lust Lust within reach, because I have the feeling that I could fall in love with it given the proper time and opportunity. Until then (or at least until Christmas), I might just have Wishing You a Rave Christmas on repeat.
"Dead Sound"
"Blush"
