The theme to a girly night out, make
up, clothes, and partying the night away is hardly the most
meaningful concept to a song, and Surferosa comes across
as nothing more than a rocked up girl band, following in the footsteps of
their predecessors Chicks on Speed. Hitting out at indie and grunge for being
creativity killing, Surferosa claims to be adding some fun and colour into
the rock world, and lead singer Mariann surely does that with her sharp and
catchy vocals through the afore mentioned ideas. More funky rock pop is represented
in "Long Lust" creating happiness and fun which would shower the
charts with it's light-hearted nature. "Bim Bam Boom" creates a
real Eurovision stomper of a tune and just confirms that Surferosa is a shouty
girly band on one level, a fun quirky band on another, but so far as to call
them punk, they are rather more like teen rebels, rebelling against the world
of work, and politics rather than expressing them. Whether they inject some
much needed fun into the world, or whether they send people cringing is for
the listener to decide.
Katherine Tomlinson
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