VIOLENT FEMMES

The Violent Femmes have weathered both personnel changes and shifting musical trends since 1982. 2000's ROCK finds the Femmes remaining true to themselves--it's full of songs both expressing and slyly, ironically mocking adolescent (and post-adolescent) angst. The cover art features the band frolicking in decadent '70s/'80s glitter-glam poses, in the styles of the New York Dolls or Faster Pussycat, and there's a moderate influence of that period in this album's ambiance. The snarling rockers "Bad Dream," "Death Drugs," and "Tonight" are charged with terse, crackling guitar, and snotty, defiant vocals. "She Went to Germany" is a great tribute to and parody of the Ramones in their "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" mode, and the jangly, mock-innocent love-and-lust song "I Wanna See You Again" recalls the slower tunes from that band's first album. With ROCK, the Violent Femmes greet the new millennium with their patented cheerfully ironic, awkward elan.

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