We Rock Like Girls Don't

Sometimes a name can tell you more than you imagined it would do. “We Rock Like Girls Don’t” instantly conjured up images of spiky haired females sticking their tongues out and thrusting V-signs in your face in a desperate attempt to establish themselves as ‘rock’. It seemed a little too much like a statement, as if they were trying to prove something. Other than being a complete turnoff, it also left those images floating around my mind as I threw on the lady rock-duo’s latest double A-side “Welcome To My World/ Feeling Lonely Now”.

Sure the galloping drums and raucous riffs serve as an almost perfect example of competently executed rock and the duo’s highly strung harmonies almost make it refreshing, but there’s simply a lack of dirt, no surface to scratch. Underneath the scuzzy QOTSA exterior is a mirror-shine impenetrability that seems to point more towards the production style rather than the band themselves as being to blame. Live, I’m sure they can tear up the stage, but something is completely amputated when you lock them in a recording studio. Maybe they need to throw in a few live stoats or start a small fire in there to give it an edge.