Mixin’ To Thrill
One of my favourite bands in recent years, Dragonette, played the Bowery Ballroom this weekend. I first heard about them on PopJustice, and read that they were opening for the Sugababes in the UK on their Overloaded: Greatest Hits tour. It was my third time seeing them live, and they have come a long way, but I am still confused about why they are not selling out much larger venues (and you best believe the first time I saw them, I asked them about the Suagbabes, which is a story for a different post).
Back to the show though. Besides paying rent, this tour was to support the release of a new remix LP, “Mixin’ To Thrill.” They did this track, “Volcano,” which was one of the highlights of the show .I really enjoy the strings they used on this. Dragonette is an odd-ball band in theroy, and their catalouge is very hit or miss, for me. For all their amazing, dramatic, well-crafted ABBA-like amazing pop songs, they also have goofy, chessy and over-all not good tracks like “Our Summer” (For which this track, “Volcano” is the b-side from).
I also included the very amazing Richard X remix of “Pick Up The Phone,” which is also on the remix EP. It was pretty smart for them to put out this complation, they have a lot of amazing remixes, and its really not fair that they are selling bootleg copies of this at their shows (I wish i was joking).
