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Are you ever in one of those aerobic or dancing/kickboxing
classes and think to yourself, “This music
makes me want to leave right now. I want to shoot
this instructor. How am I going to make it through
the next 45 minutes without ending up in jail?”
Even if you have resided yourself to a permanent
indent on your couch with the remote, you can’t
deny the overwhelming desire to move that friggin’
fruitcake eatin’, eggnog drinkin’,
Christmas special watchin’ body of yours
after throwing in Outrageous.
Lead vocalist Toril Lindqvist
is here to take over where the now bitter and
self-glorified Dale Bozzio from
Missing Persons left off. Yes,
this is disco ball lights, space age satellites
and an edge that could is sharp and shiny. Taking
their moniker from an ’84 Commodore 64 computer
game, Alice in Videoland’s
shape and style definitely derive from that electro
era, but their glow comes closer to the sauciness
of Peaches with the bubblegum
bounciness of Fischerspooner
dressed in fishnets and leather regalia.
It’s refreshing to hear that something
other than hair band, butt rock metal is coming
out of Sweden these days. And although Alice in
Videoland could use more diversity from song to
song, as they do with “Radiosong”
and “Falling,” when it comes to the
‘80s, I’ll take electro like this
any day.
www.aliceinvideoland.net
www.stormingthebase.com
-Kim Owens, December 9, 2005
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