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"Think Bay City Rollers with the most gloriously hooky parts of early Kiss records." -- Roctober

The Blondes - Swedish Heat
$14/$17 non-US (includes shipping)
Released: 2004
Possibly the
best kept secret in rock (or at least in California), the Blondes kick out the kind of tunes that are reminiscent of
an era when you could turn on the radio and hear really great power pop unencumbered by prog-rock claptrap or fake-sounding,
forced crescendos like today's average bin-clogging indie rock/emocore mewl. Following the 2001 release of a 7 song E.P. on
the L.A.-based Shipwreckords, the band -- who were known at the time as Eagle -- became instantly entangled in a bitter
lawsuit with Don Henley, changed their name to the Blondes, and struck a deal with Germany's Middle Class Pig Records, who
reissued their debut and, the following year, the full-length Summer Strut. Unleashed smack dab in the middle of summer
2003, Swedish Heat compiles the best songs from the two German releases: Thirteen tunes teeming with crunchy guitar-driven
melodies; some with blast-furnace production, others with a sun-kissed Southern California vibe. From the blistering Redd
Kross-meets-Big Star opener "I Just Wanna Stay At Home" to the breezy, '60s West Coast vibe of "So Far Away" to their blissed-out
cover of "Igen" (by Hungarian psych rock band Illes) to a trio of self-explanatory power pop paeans to Teenage Foxes, Suzi
Quatro, and California Sunshine, the Blondes serve up the sizzling soundtrack to your next summertime makeout party on
one start-to-finish masterpiece of high-octane, So. Cal-flavored rock 'n' roll.
tracklist
01 I Just Wanna Stay At Home
02 Vesna Velovic
03 Teenage Foxes
04 California Sunshine
05 So Far Away
06 Suzi Quatro
07 American Doctor
08 High-Five Suicide
09 Watcha Gonna Do
10 Just One Of The Guys
11 Igen
12 Emily
13 Je Deviendrais
Cat. #: TEENA-002
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