I don't think I've been this excited about demos before. The Raveonettes last album Lust Lust Lust engendered exactly that in my aural cavity. Their fuzzy washes of surf guitars and garage rock immediately balmed the ever-present ringing in my ears and Sharin and Sune still lull me to sleep at night with their addictively sweet melodies. They're so good that I don't mind when I awake in the morning wrapped in headphone chord. Dangerous? Yep. Worth it? You bet. The tentatively titled "Last Dance" perfectly captures my fascination with these Danes: from the opening line (which I wish I'd written), "Your lipstick smeared sad," to the Beach Boys-ish woo-woos in the background, to the theme of the song itself (Sune succinctly explains it: "how drug addiction interferes with love"). My addiction to The Raveonettes hasn't interfered with my love life, rather with Alisa's sleep patterns, specifically when the wall of guitars rush in between verses of their track "Hallucinations" and bleed from my ears. It hurts oh so good.

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Last Dance (demo) [MP3, 4.8MB, 192kbps]

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