The Long Blondes’ Kate Jackson sings like she has amazing taste in lipstick, delivering smart, sex-as-a-weapon lyrics with a swaggering smirk that conveys both glam-charged confidence and femme-specific vulnerability. Fans of X-Ray Spex but haters of Nirvana, the Sheffield-based band weds cattiness and punk-inspired spunk to studied pop-culture references (did she just say, “I feel like C.C. Baxter in Billy Wilder’s Apartment“?) like Elastica gone pop or No Doubt gone indie. Either way, it’s ridiculously entertaining.
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