Although I could see how some listeners could say Big Red Letter Day lacks variety, it is an album that takes no effort to listen to and is a welcome change from the daily grind of professors, homework and hangovers. Baby Listening to Girls Against Boys' latest album, Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby , makes me itchy everywhere. Just the right dose of industrial sampling pushes Mr. Silas Greene's and Scott McCloud's voices through the darkness on the album, while McCloud's guitar tears the edges off the songs and leaves them irresistibly ragged. GVSB's songs come out like monsters that McCloud, Greene, bassist Johnny Temple and drummer Alexis Fleisig have to fight back. Their exhausted, unrefined sound makes it seem like the only thing that keeps them battling are the prodding guitar chords and steady drum beats on the album.
Baby is necessary roughness, pure and simple.
Girls Against Boys infects that one spot you just can't reach to scratch, but with Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby , the sound is so intriguing that you don't really want it to go away anyway.