EP review: What Would Jesus Drive – The Girls Are In Charge
If there’s one thing I love in a song it’s boy/girl call and response vocals. By a remarkable stroke of luck ‘The Girls Are In Charge’, the second EP from electro punk outfit ‘What Would Jesus Drive’, happens to feature the call and response vocals of Tim and Amy. A spiky, angular, electro punk number, musically it’s slightly reminiscent of the Knack’s ‘My Sharona’. Lyrically it’s witty and entertaining in a ‘it’s funny because it’s true’ observational humour kind of way (Jack White finds it hard to be a gentleman/you find it easy to agree/I’ll bet his bird kept nicking his chips/when at the shop she said she didn’t want any). Elsewhere on the EP ‘Punches In Bunches’ successfully fuses art rock with punk and features the splendid lyric ‘na na na na na’, while ‘Masquerade’ is a more straight up rock song, including drumming that wouldn’t be out of place on a RATM record.The inclusion of a live version of ‘The Girls Are In Charge’ doesn’t really add anything but it’s such a good song I don’t mind hearing it twice! 4/5
Mark Cousens
Released 11th october by EyeSeeSound
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