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I keep seeing their name everywhere and last.fm lists them as the hottest thing of the moment (in terms of the surge in numbers of listens). So who are they, what do they sound like and should we check them out?

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

they've got some amazing songs - 'let's make love and listen death from above', 'music is my hot hot sex', 'fuckoff is not the only thing you have to show'. at their best they're fantastically fun electropop - the album is disappointing though, too much bog standard indie rock (especially as they ditched some of their more exciting portuguese language material in favour of it).

i imagine they're very good live.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

The single is great.

I was thinking about getting the album but the 'bog standard indie rock ' is a bit offputting.

You can download the single and watch the entertaining video here

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/37281/MP3_CSS_Lets_Make_Love_and_Listen_to_Death_Fro#37281

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking about getting the album but the 'bog standard indie rock ' is a bit offputting.

Yeah, but it's the Lex! Anything that doesn't sound like Ciara is "bog standard indie rock"!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think they are awesome but I've barely listened to the second half of the album at all.

'Meeting Paris Hilton' is terrific.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Dare I ask the storyline of that particular ditty?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the link. Listening to Let's make Love and it is indeed pretty great. DFA for teens or something.

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

i want to hear more - i'll prob get the album soonish.

(that's not the best mix of LMLDFA. IMHO)

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

A track that isn't on the album, but which you really must track down, is 'Superafim'.

They are playing the UK soon:

2nd Nottingham Stealth
3rd Glasgow Indian summer festival
4th York Fibbers
5th Manchester Roadhouse
6th Leeds Faversham
8th London 93 Feet East, Adventures From Home
9th Brighton Audio
10th London Dingwalls (with 1990s)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

YES to 'superafim' - also 'computer heat'.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

There's a band called The 1990s?

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

That version of LMLALDFA on Pitchfork is the Spank Rock remix, isn't it? The album version is much better - its faster and has more fizz to it and occasionally lurches into this cool dirty fuzz-bass schaffel thing.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Good spot on the link--remember seeing a video a few weeks ago and really enjoying it, it's made my day to know I can have the mp3 for free (legitimately).

(xposts)

Matt, there's the album version on the page too.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

I only listened to the album version. I like the dirty fuzz-bass.

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, album version >> spank rock remix. The remix seems to strip away a lot of the playfulness.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

I like the remix of the single, but can't see what the fuss is about with the rest of their stuff.

― alext (alext), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

They do a short, jokey version of Madonna's "Hollywood" which shows that behind Madonna's awful serious delivery, there's a lovely, silly pop-punk song in there waiting to get out.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Live they are very very punk rock. Three guitars. Still amazing., but it takes a moment for it to sink in.

― Mallory L . O'Donnell (That Bitch Camille), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

One of the year's best singles, but the album is rather disappointing.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm with everyone else on the album, it's a bit disappointing given the strength of the singles. And I didn't know they actually had Porteugese stuff they chose not to put on, that's too bad! I want to make a graph showing the correlation between them singing more in Portuegese and getting better reviews.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

This album is a fucking blast. Not totally winning from front to back, but the hit:shit ratio is very favorable. Recommended to people who don't hate The Teaches of Peaches, "Genius of Love", Le Tigre and the B-52s.

Gotta be willing to absorb a certain ESL quality in the lyrics & vocal delivery. More than occasionally goofy, even wince-inducing. But if you get your mind right, that's half the fun.

Stuff I like:
"CSS Suxxx"
"Let's Make Love and Cetera"
"Fuckoff is Not the Only and Cetera"
"Meeting Paris Hilton" (which really shoulda been called "The Bitch Said Yeah")
"Off the Hook"
"Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex"
"This Month, Day 10"

"Art Bitch", on the other hand, is a problem. Here the wincey dumbness gets way outta hand. I hate this song the way I imagine other folks hate the whole album. Forewarned...

Agree with Lexx that the duff tunes on the album suffer from their bland indie-rockness. More discopop, in this case, = more better.

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

if these girls were from brooklyn, say like Avenue D, they'd be called what they are , electroclash

― kevin barking (arghargh), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't hate the whole album, I just wish they had leaned more toward the "Let's Make Love" sound overall.

And I love "Art Bitch!"

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

"Let's Make Love and Cetera"
"Fuckoff is Not the Only and Cetera"

For a second I'm all 'Peter Cetera?'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

And I love electroclash! Fuck it I don't care anymore!

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

everybody OTM on the LP. looking forward to seeing them live.

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I love songs where the dominant instrument is keyboards then you watch the video and everybody's playing a guitar.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Live they are very very punk rock.

when I saw them live I felt like they could be a decent punk(ier) band if they wanted to, but instead they are bent on being a shitty new wave dance band. (partly my own bias, I'm just sick of that style. also, singer's shtick gets old.)

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

i played with them in brazil last year and there wasn't an ounce of electroclash in their performance.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

'art bitch' is completely rubbish, not as bad as 'patins' though.

'meeting paris hilton' is good but suffers from not being as great as paris's own stuff.

it's electroclash but...sweatier? less po-faced? funkier? i imagine css grin a lot more than any electroclash dude ever did.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'd say it's more electroclashy than electroclash. (Note that I'm neither endorsing "electroclashy" as valid usage, nor encouraging others to attempt this very tricky maneuver.)

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Lex, do you like 'Alala'? I ask because it sounds like Sonic Youth with an electro tinge. She might almost be consciously aping Kim Gordon for a bit.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

I don't hate the whole album, I just wish they had leaned more toward the "Let's Make Love" sound overall.

My sentiments exactly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

'art bitch' is completely rubbish, not as bad as 'patins' though.

The original version is great - for some reason they recorded a new backing track for the album, turning one of the highlights of the Brazilian LP into poo.

― Mallory L . O'Donnell (That Bitch Camille), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

lead singer just seems fame obsessed, I like electroclash too eppy, i just don't see any MILD craft in their song writing. too self referential and tedious

― kevin barking (arghargh), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

HEY is it too early for an electroclash revival?

― Das Spiel ist aus für Baaderonixx (baaderonixx), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

apparently not

― kevin barking (arghargh), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's no more electroclash than Rachel Stephens ffs.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

i can't really remember 'alala', matt!

my liking for sonic youth is rather overrated really, it's not as if i listen to them very much. i just approve in general, and really like a few songs.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

i played with them in brazil last year and there wasn't an ounce of electroclash in their performance

So stirmonster, did you ever have the distinct pleasure of meeting Marina from Bonde Do Role?

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

lead singer just seems fame obsessed

Dude, a) how can you tell this, and b) why does it matter?

The other things are fair enough, but really, who gives a shit how ambitious they appear to be?

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I wanna be famous too! Is there a place I can sign up?

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

So stirmonster, did you ever have the distinct pleasure of meeting Marina from Bonde Do Role?

sadly not. they played here a few weeks ago but i was out of town.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Lex liking Sonic Youth confuses me greatly. I know there's a woman in the band, but so many guitars! So indie!

I wouldn't mind an electroclash revival! I listen to electroclashy ((c) Adam Beales) stuff a lot. I just got the new Adult. album, for example.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Me too, I'm ready for the revival (although I wouldn't really classify the new Adult. lp as electroclash, more like nü-deathrock)

― Das Spiel ist aus für Baaderonixx (baaderonixx), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

I love the single, and the album is likeable too, this is the kind of album I've been waiting for a while: I cannot have enough of this electroclash/discopunk thing, a shame, I know.
They will tour with Ladytron in the USA, gonna be good gigs, I bet.

― zeus (zeus), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I had a fairly good time watching them perform before Diplo.

― enjoy bell woods (sjjd111), Friday, 4 August 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone know if it's possible to find the original Brazilian release anywhere (so long as it is not astronomically priced)?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Friday, 4 August 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

What's the tracklisting for this album? I listened to it in the morning and I've got Superafim on mine, and a few Portugese-language tracks. I'm confused now. (Admittedly this a download from ages ago).

Art Bitch is a brilliantly rubbish joke. Especially the bit that goes "suck suck suck my art hole".

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

It turns out the version I have is the Brazilian album. Hooray!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

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is the original release of this really hard to get hold of? I want some karmic recompense for buying that Robyn album too soon (and all the vinyl bits I bought last year and should have just waited for to inevitably arrive on CD...)

― fandango, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

and reading that Bonde de Role actually toured with them last year?? waaaay too much cuteness in one room! :-o

― fandango, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Before hearing either, I saw CCS live with their fellow Brazilians Bonde Do Role. CCS looked and sounded like generic hipsters playing rock songs and I was kind of bored. Then Bonde Do Role came on dancing everywhere, shouting catchy hooks over Alice in Chains samples and bongos, stage diving. It was one of the best shows I've seen.

I totally forgot about CCS for the longest time, until I wound up getting their album on a whim. There's electronic drums, great lyrics, awesome crunchy guitars and riffs. It's an amazing album. Surprisingly, Bonde Do Role didn't really work on album. It just sounded like their tinny voices over obvious samples.

― filthy dylan, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't even know Bondo... had an album, I just saw the video for their new single last night and was way smitten (and CSS have just ground me down one great song at a time -especially- the guitary ones)... also Tim Finney's review of that new Baile Funk compilation kinda stuck in my thoughts... I'm VERY behind on this curve aren't I? ha!

― fandango, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

i ended up loving "alala" in the usual unreliable end

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

well this is a treat so far! god damn, so typical of me to overlook the *completely* obvious things I should have been listening to in '06

― fandango, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

i'm loving "off the hook"

bondo do role did a great remix for me, dj gorky is a sweetheart

― cutty, Friday, 23 March 2007 02:56 (eighteen years ago)

i like them too!

― daria-g, Friday, 23 March 2007 03:45 (eighteen years ago)

this album is fantastic, good grief, all this talk of electroclash and discopunk is so... not it!

― fandango, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

They are like all my favourite bands rolled into one.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

the album's still an absolute corker, and having now seen a proper full gig i'm sure they'll be around for a good while yet, and woo to that.

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=3723

what kind of 'agreeable noises' was the grimey one making?

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

98 million views (YouTube investigation is ongoing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N3OrZzPud8

http://www.aol.com.au/news/story/Numbers-dont-tally-for-clip/221741/index.html

― StanM, Monday, 10 March 2008 12:26 (seventeen years ago)

This is too complicated. What was the Barack Obama part of it?

― _Rockist__Scientist_, Monday, 10 March 2008 12:31 (seventeen years ago)

(Oh wait, last sentence. I bailed out early.)

― _Rockist__Scientist_, Monday, 10 March 2008 12:31 (seventeen years ago)

Barack & Obama are two of the search tags for that video clip, as are iPod and Apple. But that can't account for all of those views either. (xpo-oh, ok)

― StanM, Monday, 10 March 2008 12:33 (seventeen years ago)

god forbid anything besides the mind-bendingly horrible evolution of dance should be at the top

― max, Monday, 10 March 2008 17:55 (seventeen years ago)

109 million views

― StanM, Friday, 14 March 2008 10:20 (seventeen years ago)

this band I liked in 2006 kinda sucked

― The Reverend, Thursday, 20 March 2008 23:48 (seventeen years ago)

it did fuck all for the GO TEAM.

― pisces, Friday, 21 March 2008 02:43 (seventeen years ago)

MUSIC IS BY BOYFRIEND

― chaki, Friday, 21 March 2008 02:44 (seventeen years ago)

lol how to i shot band w/me and 6 hot 20 y/o girls?

― jhøshea, Friday, 21 March 2008 02:48 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.screamyell.com.br/musicadois/canseidesexy_foto.jpg

― jhøshea, Friday, 21 March 2008 02:50 (seventeen years ago)

2nd from R: HOT 20 Y/O GIRL (according to jhøshea)

― The Reverend, Friday, 21 March 2008 04:58 (seventeen years ago)

MUSIC IS MY KING SIZE BED

― chaki, Friday, 21 March 2008 09:12 (seventeen years ago)

new album already damn

― fandango, Friday, 21 March 2008 11:49 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

CSS release their new album 'Donkey' this summer, but if you don't want to wait that long you can download the brand new track 'Rat Is Dead (Rage)' right now y'all.

http://www.canseidesersexy.com/

― pisces, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 14:20 (seventeen years ago)

You'd think Lovefoxxx could do much better than "that bloke out of The Klaxons".

― King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

He's still higher than her in the cool list, isne?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 15:02 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Donkey leaked. Is taking ages to download (fuck Sendspace) but maybe someone can talk about it while I wait?

― Keaney Tong, Friday, 27 June 2008 17:32 (seventeen years ago)

four weeks pass...

I just now got the first record and man it's great! A lot more hooks than I thought I'd find and a fair bit more variety. I figured "Let's Make Love" and "Alala" would be the peaks but "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" is an instant hit for me. Yeah, what's the scoop on the new one?

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 July 2008 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

The new one is an average indie-pop-electro-punk album, with some mediocre songs. Not very bad, but not too interesting after the first one.

― zeus, Sunday, 27 July 2008 20:15 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

"Music is my bitch house"???

― kkvgz, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 12:49 (fifteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Saw them last night. Tbh the first half of the set didn't really grab me, but I've always had a crush on Lovefoxxx and she didn't disappoint. She's an amazing performer. Lots of awesome costume changes. At one point she had a shirt on that said "I <3 kyoto". All the old singles were played at the end of the set and it ended on a really fun high note.

Sleigh Bells opened. It was pretty rad as well. At one point the guitarist and lead singer were thrashing around so much that she got slammed in the head w the guitar and began bleeding profusely. She got a towel and made it through another 2 or 3 songs, even crowd surfing, before packing it up. The towel was completely covered in blood by the end. A pretty hardcore show!

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 13:24 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

so there's a new track with... um.. bobby gillespie?

i haven't heard it.

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 June 2011 13:17 (fourteen years ago)

It's a B. Maybe B-.

― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 23 June 2011 13:21 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

didn't like them before this song but it's rad

― iatee, Friday, 15 July 2011 19:23 (fourteen years ago)

"Music is my bitch house"???

― kkvgz, Wednesday, June 23, 2010 8:49 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

― kkvgz, Friday, 15 July 2011 19:27 (fourteen years ago)

What's the new song called?

I heard "Alala" the other night for the first time in a few years and it still rules.

― billstevejim, Friday, 15 July 2011 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

New record Planta is a fun electro-disco pop album, not as ambitious as the last one so far but solid and funky, including a song that is half reggaeton and half dubstep. Damn I love them so much.

― @GracieLoPan #fyi (Display Name (this cannot be changed):), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 17:18 (twelve years ago)

six years pass...

Just had a flash of 00's nostalgia

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 30 January 2020 10:56 (five years ago)

great revive

― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 January 2020 12:13 (five years ago)

ffs

― pomenitul, Thursday, 30 January 2020 12:14 (five years ago)

lmfao

― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Thursday, 30 January 2020 12:28 (five years ago)

Are they actually still going?

― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Thursday, 30 January 2020 14:22 (five years ago)

I checked their Wikipedia. No update since 2013

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 30 January 2020 15:55 (five years ago)

this shit holds up imo

― billstevejim, Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:40 (five years ago)

three years pass...

Fuckity fuck I found out a day too late that Rough Trade & Sub Pop did a special 500 copy pressing of the debut and it's already gone.

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 2 April 2023 04:50 (two years ago)

Eh, if anyone cares, I was wrong. There are still copies available at the US Rough Trade site.

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 03:51 (two years ago)

had no idea this was one of those "sell high" kind of albums.

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 05:49 (two years ago)

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