Scissor Sisters' New Album

[Sylph]

I'm not really all that interested, but thought someone might be. They talk about it here.

It will be released on 28 June 2010.

[Cat]

Eh. No. I mistakenly got their album way back when they were hot and it was just crap. Wannabe Elton John crap.

[EricMontreal22]

Cat was that Ta Dah? Or their first album with Comfortably Numb, etc? Cuz most longterm fans hate, HATE Ta Dah with a passion (despite it's massive UK sales--or maybe because) for *exactly* the reasons you say. It was doubly odd that they had just written and produced for Kylie the Moroder/Disco hommage, I Believe In You, and their album had traded in that sound for middle of the road crap.

Sylph--that's a great article that actually goes into lots of that--thanks for posting it!

Thankfully they've gone back to their first album and pre Electronic dark stuff--hence the Mapplethorpe pic of the guy's ass on the front lol. The band has talked about their last album "neutering" them for success with soccer moms, with, yeah honky tonk stuff and Elton John pastiches. I hated it (Ta Dah) though I loved much of the first album and LOVED their EP stuff (classic gay club songs like Electrobix with lyrics that would never make the radio)

I love the fact they recorded a full album in the style of their last, and the reaction from their friends was so unappealing they scrapped it.

The two reviews of the new album I've read have been very promising--I posted their leaked song in the Kylie thread (they're, like her and everyone else, working with Stuart Price. ) Love Ian Mckellan's Querelle inspired spoken bit

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While it's a bit off putting hear Jake talk about doing dugs at German gay sex clubs for inspiration, I and most fans of their early non mainstream stuff are pretty glad they seem to realize what a ridiculous, and BORING direction they had been heading in--which was so out of step with their unabasedly hedonistic, gay and sexual early electro disco. (My one complaint is the lead radio single, Fire with Fire sounds like Price's stuff with Killers, thankfully fromlistening tot he sample clips, it's not anything like the rest of the album).

[Cat]

Yes, it was Tah-Dah, I think. It was the one with "Mary" on it.

Color me surprised when the article said that Ana got married - to her long-term boyfriend.

They seem to be benefiting from a new era of gay sexual expressiveness in music videos generally and the like (though perhaps not so much IRL sadly) and that will play to their strengths. In the end, though, it is their sound that will make or break the album. I tend to separate out what I see on MTV and what I hear through my earphones.

[EricMontreal22]

I don't expect this one to have as much mainstream success in the UK, even with electronic dance very big there right now--their mammoth success there has been for the more honky tonk stuff (of course they've never had major US success, though they came close with the dire I Don't Feel Like Dancing). So glad this new album has no ballads either.

yeah Ana has often called herself the ultimate faghag--she doesn't have much (obvious) presence on record but in her live shows she's actually the one you focus on--surprisingly strong stage presence. (of course, as much as I love a good half of their music, lol, and am looking forward to this, I find Jake a bit... much).

[Sylph]

Apparently, this thing isn't really getting bad reviews. It seems the opposite?

[EricMontreal22]

Yep, it's getting their best reviews since their first album (which was beloved by critics). It's a fun album I think. the second half is much better than the first.

http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/scissorsisters/nightwork?q=scissor sisters