The Holy Ghost
WELCOME TO IGNORE US is thick, chewy, sexy rock and roll so down and dirty you’ll have to take a shower afterwards. It’s not just their paeans to sexual deviation (“Genghis Khan”), insurance fraud (“Chez Paree”) or visiting Loser Street (“Graciana Ole”) that make this grittily compelling. It’s the mildly psychotic lyrics, the ZZ Top guitars, the heel-tapping hooks, the actual songcraft itself that makes you want to hear it again and again. Sleazy, blowzy, but still hot. They say it best themselves: “Downtown Seattle in a dress.” Best thing I’ve heard in months. –Mark Rose