Manda and the Marbles We all miss the Go-Gos. And if “Walk Like an Egyptian” comes on the radio, most people would not dis the Bangles and turn it off. But sometimes, I wish there was a little more…oomph to their music. It’s excellent pop, to be sure, but it just needs more weight.
Enter Manda and the Marbles, whose Go-Gos-meets-The Runaways sound fills that need nicely. Their forthcoming disc, “Angles With Dirty Faces,” is a seamless combination of good-girl pop and bad-girl rock. Manda’s voice exhibits the same contradictions, at once a valley-girl drawl and a sex-kitten purr, tumbling through songs about boys, dancing and – no lie – lipstick (the undeniably toe-tapping, head-bobbing “Lipstick) with one mission in mind. As the kickoff track says, these “Kids Just Wanna Dance.”
-- JN 12/11/04
Look for the national release of Angels with Dirty Faces on Addison Records in 2005.
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