Brazilian Girls – New York City Review
The difference between Black Kids and Brazilian Girls is simple, when doing an image search on these bands, when you searched for Black Kids pre-internet fame you had terrible racist imagery while searching for Brazilian Girls you got almost naked, bikini wearing women. It also doesn’t hurt if I were to place the statement “hot sexxxy naked Brazilian girls” to get random traffic from users looking for porn in this post (oh wait I just did)
As everyone mentions about Brazilian Girls, they have just one female member in Sabina Sciubba and even then none of the members appear to Brazilian. Sabina could have you fooled though, she uses her prowess of being able to speak 5 major languages in English, German, Spanish, French and Italian. Too bad there isn’t some Portuguese. I’ll forgive them for the band name though as some critics get hung by bad band names a lot of the time.
“New York City” an album titled after the city in which the band formed, starts with St. Petersburg a simplistic track with vocals from Sabina that is spoken word. It’s an interesting track that doesn’t quite do it for me. The next track is Losing Myself, which is a solid track that mixes in English and French quite well (I can tell when it’s French…poor recognition on other languages). I hate the hook “I’m Losing Myself” which is repeated quite a number of times but the song itself is both danceable and surprisingly dense mixing in a variety of elements with a drumline.
“Berlin” – another track titled after a major European city starts off like it’s an orchestra and Sabina singing beautifully. It starts off with a foreign language…French and English are used for different verses but I think German is involved (obvious with the title?). This track is great for the changing in languages and it’s beautiful to hear. Halfway through it kicks in with a piano-esque keyboard intro that mixes well with the trumpets and various elements of the orchestra.
Instead of just constantly repeating myself at the wonderful use of language my favorite song is “Good Time”. Good Time features a fan little baas line and is probably their most accessible and poppiest song.
I’ll give the Brazilian Girls some credit, I was a bit skeptical about liking them as they tend to change styles from song to song. They aren’t afraid to risk it and no song sounds the same. I found myself hating a few things here and there but it’s electro at its finest. It isn’t straight up pop which I tend to have a bias for as well.
I also want to drop a comparison to Ladytron as they use differences in languages in various tracks.
Rating: 4.3 out of 5
Buy this album at: CD Universe & Insound & Amazon
Have you heard their first two studio releases? Both are pretty amazing! You’ll get a better appreciation for their eccentric style. Plus they are pretty amazing live as well!