Album Review

The Ettes – Danger Is Ep

• 13th Jul 2009

Shot through with filthy fuzzy basslines, Danger Is sounds the perfect, onomatopoeic title for this EP.

The Ettes play scuzzy, punky garage-rock perfectly suited to drunkenly dancing in a sweaty club with chicken wire in front of the stage.
The EP, with three studio tracks and two live cuts, is less than 15 minutes, but this mere quarter-hour is long enough for the hooks to sink into you and refuse to let go.

Spawned from New York, the city’s influence can be heard from the go, with comparisons to Yeah Yeah Yeah’s rightly justified. Opener “No Home” swaggers out of the speakers. The surf guitar chorus of “Lo And Behold” complements the Misfits-esque verse, whilst final stuio recording, “Subject” stomps the trio to a close.
The two live tracks are fine examples of the bluster and energy you could imagine from an Ettes experience.

Envisage a knife fight between Bikini Kill and Spinnerette in a back-alley. That is how Danger Is sounds.