Johnny forwarded me an email last week. He wrote, “finally, something decent to cover.” The email came from Spinnerette, and it announced a new EP they were independently releasing, entitled Ghetto Love. We’ve been following Spinnerette on Antiquiet, starting with a retro review of the last Distillers album, through an appearance with Queens Of The Stone Age and Spinnerette’s first shows in October.
I share the complaint behind Johnny’s statement- while all the hipsters are finding so much music to love these days, it all sounds like shit to us. We’ve had to resort to pot shots at fucking Fall Out Boy for fuck’s sake. But there’s this little EP, and another one from Cat Power that’s worth checking out.
Ghetto Love is only four songs- Ghetto Love, Valium Knights, Distorting A Code, and Bury My Heart, all of which have been heard online and/or live. But the first two tracks are pretty hot. Bury My Heart is alright, while Distorting A Code is our least favorite.
Check out the video for Ghetto Love:
If you dig that, the complete EP can be heard and/or purchased here from Topspin (why it isn’t on iTunes, we do not know), bundled along with the Ghetto Love video. UPDATE: We forgot to mention- at their last show, Brody promised the full length album would arrive in February ‘09.
The photo at the top of the page was taken at Spinnerette’s show at Spaceland on October 29th. The rest can be viewed on Antiquiet’s Facebook page.
Ghetto Love
December 11, 2008
Independent
1. Ghetto Love
2. Valium Knights
3. Distorting A Code
4. Bury My Heart
- 1. Ghetto Love
- 2. Valium Knights
- 3. Distorting A Code
- 4. Bury My Heart
Awesome looking video…Brodie looks hot as usual…but this song is shit.
sounds alright, but I’m not hearing anything new here. It’ll probably get ‘em on a couple soundtracks tho
I fucking love this EP. I have been waiting for this forever. It is slightly disappointing to have only 4 songs, one of which they already gave us for free a while back. The music video is awesome though and totally worth it. I bought the EP without a second thought instead of downloading it like I do everything else, because I feel they deserve it. Which is the future of getting paid for your music: You only get paid if you deserve it.
Eh…I don’t hate it, but it doesn’t tickle my musical clitoris. I think there are better hidden gems out there.
NME.com is giving away another one of their singles for free. It’s better than the song that’s here.
Is it just me or do I hear QotSA influence? Anyway, sounds good to me, so, I’ll proceed with the album.
it’s pretty underwhelming.
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