In & Out of Control

Raveonettes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 6, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vice Records
• ASIN: B002HR1X6E
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,125 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Review

In And Out Of Control is pure, nonstop exhilaration --Billboard, October, 2009

Chilly, disturbing lyrics emerge from a dense fog of blissful Spector harmonies and Jesus and Mary Chain surf and strings --Spin, October 2009

Consistently making strong albums...their forthcoming In And Out Of Control may be their best to date --New York Magazine

Product Description

According to the Raveonettes Sune Rose Wagner, it is incredibly hard being in a Danish rock n roll band cause of this damn thing we have called Jante Loven (Jante Law), which basically tells Danes not to feel superior to any other man, woman, child or beast. This translates into everyone being very scared of thinking highly of themselves and in the music world means that you re no better than this band or that band. Though Sharin & Sune love Denmark, they felt they had to leave in order to break the restricting chains of the Jante Law, but before they left, they hit up the Ministry of Culture for a couple of bucks in state sponsored tour support, called up Hilly Kristal and landed their first ever gig outside Denmark in the filthy, disgusting and legendary club known as CBGB s. Rolling Stone s David Fricke showed up along with 40 other paid admissions and the rest is pure rock n roll history...

From the time Don Ienner, the president of Columbia, asked the Raves to play Bob Dylan s old guitar for him and his posse, to the time Sune shook David Letterman s hand on national television, the expectations were high. At that time they had only released an 8 track EP entitled Whip It On and a noisy, low-fidelity album called Chain Gang Of Love. They released their final album for Columbia, Pretty In Black in 2005 and spent the next 2 years coming up with the sound and songs for Lust Lust Lust which was recorded in Sune s apartment in NYC.

The Raveonettes have always hated repeating themselves, and so they set the bar really high for In And Out Of Control . It s a strange mixture of modern and old, dark and happy. It s about rape, violence, lost love, suicide, not caring about what other people think of you and most importantly being mad and angelic! Jante Loven doesn t mean anything to the Raveonettes cause they know they made a better album than anybody else out there!

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Raveonettes return with a 'safe' album, October 8, 2009

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Paul Allaer (Cincinnati) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In & Out of Control (Audio CD)

The Raveonettes, consisting of Danish duo Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo, blazed onto the scene with their boisterous, shredding 2002 debut "Whip It On", shortly thereafter followed by the equally mesmorizing 2003 album "The Chain Gang of Love". Things after that took a decidedly turn for the worse with the baffling 2005 "Pretty in Black" album. The band took a long time to regroup after that disaster, and returned in 2008 with the ok-but-not-great "Lust Lust Lust" album. Now comes the band's 5th album.

"In and Out of Control" (11 tracks; 37 min.) in essence continues the path from "Lust Lust Lust", providing us with more of a mix between beautiful pop hooks and electric noise thrown in just to keep things interesting. Check out "Gone Forever" which starts off with a minute of so of dead noise only to then dive in with a great pop song, as if the first minute didn't happen. "Last Dance" (1st single) is a great song. The second half of the album is actually the more interesting one for me, with such nuggets as "Bearking Into Cars" and best of all, the hard-charging "Break Up Girls!", reminding me of their earliest and most exciting output. At 37 min, this all makes for a quick listen. Overall, in the Raveonettes universe, this feels like a 'safe' album. (Of course, compared to the mainstream music out there, this remains cutting-edge.)

The album I bought came with a bonus EP consisting of 2 tracks (6 min.), containing the upbeat "The Chosen One", which would have been a nice addition to the album proper, and "Planes Do Crash", an unremarkable tune. I've seen the Ravonettes in concert a number of times over the years, and they always shine live, better than their studio output. They'll be coming to Cincinnati in a few weeks in support of the new album, and you bet I will be there. Finally, if you wonder where you can hear this band, check out WOXY (BAM! The Future of Rock and Roll), the internet-only station that brings the best indie-music in the country, bar none.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Raveonettes Are (Mostly) In Control, December 9, 2009

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Richard Hine "Russell Wiley Is Out to Lunch" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In And Out Of Control (MP3 Download)

The Raveonettes kicked it up a notch with their third album LUST LUST LUST. And they're back again with the similarly dark-but-infectious IN AND OUT OF CONTROL At the risk of repeating myself, I'll repeat what I said in an earlier review: "Put a cupful of 1950s rock'n'roll, two tablespoons of 1960s girl group vibes and a sprinkle of new millennium noise pop into a sonic blender and you have the Raveonettes." The echoes of the Shangri-Las are particularly strong in album opener "Bang!" and the catchy "Last Dance." The singalong opportunity diminishes with "Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)." You might agree with the sentiment, but you can't avoid the lyrical awkwardness. Those three minutes aside, the album gets back on track with "Heart of Stone" and the tender "Oh, I Buried You Today." "Breaking Into Cars" is a standout track. "Break Up Girls!" seems to imagine a lost, distorted B-side to "Leader of the Pack." The album closes with the atmospheric and maudlin "Wine," lamenting "Lone/roads/sprinkled/with tears" and a summer that "threw our love away."

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Raveonettes - In and Out of Control, October 6, 2009

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Andrew Vice (Plano, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In & Out of Control (Audio CD)

Not content to recreate the sonic landscape of their (in my opinion) breakout album, Lust Lust Lust, the Raves have pushed a little harder this time, focusing on the songwriting aspect of putting together an album and putting less time into the noise. Where Lust played like one extended mood, where songs were discernible only in that there was a pause between tracks and maybe a subtle shift in style, In and Out of Control plays much more so as a collection of songs. And songs these are, showing the band's love of '50s girl groups and Phil Spector while still maintaining that signature Raveonettes via the Jesus and Mary Chain sound. Unfortunately, the added focus on songwriting is a mixed bag, as not every song idea turns out to be a real keeper, and I do sorely miss the artistic haze of Lust's swirling mass of distortion. Regardless, there are some killer tracks here, with my particular favorites being "Last Dance" and "Suicide," which not-so-coincidentally sound the most like their last album. They're fabulous slow-tempo rockers, and they have a healthy mix of song structure and gauzy musical goodness. Definitely a record aimed at bringing in some new fans, and certainly more accessible than Lust Lust Lust.