Apparently there’s an unwritten ten-step Danish law known as Janteloven that, in a rapid précis, states: “Don’t think that you are special.” Every time The Raveonettes take the stage, they cock a snook at their homeland principles, and prove that the two-part act is good at something, more important than somebody, and that someone out there cares about their music. Sune Rose and Sharin Foo (the platinum blonde Blender tagged as one of the hottest rock women in 2006) strummed their Fenders with a cool, calm collection to showering bold colors of floodlights at Club Soda. Opening with Gone Forever, their set began weak, but a slow and steady climb to redeem itself began soon after. Rose and Foo, along with their touring ‘plus two’ stand-up drummer and guitarist, turned out heavy-hearted unsmiling stories dished up in candy store bubble-gum wrapping. It’s noise pop with pithy lyrics, and on occasion, spotlight solos. But the greatest lure of this outfit is the blend of Rose and Foo’s voices, a seamless, fit for the sound, of 50’s-60’s old fashion rock. The boy and girl duo mainly sang songs off their new album In & Out of Control with highlights of the night being D.R.U.G.S., Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed), and possibly Break Up Girls, but that was ruined by overdone seizure-inducing shots of white light. And strewn along the stage floor were amps with The Raveonettes motto etched on: “RAVE ON”. It’s THAT law that the two now live by.
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