Review
Today, they dress like the Strokes’ foreign slacker girlfriends, but Sahara Hotnights didn’t always look cool: It’s hard not to chuckle at the album cover of C’mon Let’s Pretend, from 1999, which depicts four barely post-pubescent girls playing at being blasé toughs, dwarfed by an oversize ’70s convertible. Similarly, it’s hard not to roll your eyes when Maria Andersson warns “I’m as cold as a razor blade” in her theatrical, Brit-accented coo-yelp — she often suggests Gwen Stefani singing Cure karaoke. Whereas 2002’s Jennie Bomb was barreling garage-rock, Pretend features full-bodied pop with a New Wave sheen (the funky “Oh, Darling”) and a handful of loping, plaintive moments (the forlorn “Wake Up”). Sahara Hotnights got much better when they moved to the garage.
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