The Virgins – Self Titled Review

30 August 2008, Coko @ 5:55 pm

My new favourite band, The Virgins, seriously. I’m saying, seriously, what’s with the name? I’ve got to ask them when I meet them. The first time I heard about this band…on the show Gossip Girl (please don’t ask & don’t judge either). So, here are 5 guys from New York…if you care about their names, you can wiki them, cause I really don’t. And, I really don’t care how they met either. What I do care about is how great they are, and I hope they can stay true to their style.

They released an EP in 2007, with 6 songs, which have been re-recorded for the full-length album that came out this year in June. The album starts “Room service muthaf*ckas” then switches to a danceable beat. I love all their songs. They don’t sound the same. You can dance to all of them. They all tell a story. This album reminds of the Maroon 5’s album “Songs About Jane” before Adam Levine became a “hot bachelor”, when he talked about the anonymous girlfriend that beat up his heart. The Virgins talk about the club nights where they meet expensive rich girls who infect them and offer “cocaine brunches”.

I guess I do have to pick a couple of favourites: “One Week of Danger”, “Hey Hey Girl”, “Radio Christiane” and “Love Is Colder Than Death”. It’s about the grooveable beats, the meaningful words and the strange anthems. The Virgins sound like guys who just said to themselves, “let’s just do it and see what happens”. You can hear their nonchalance in their album. This doesn’t mean they don’t care… but at the same time, it really seems like they don’t. In today’s market, everyone cares too much about having the freshest sound because we all sound the same. I actually bought their first album online, and it was sent in the mail with my address handwritten. That’s how real these guys are…and by the way, this was just a couple of months ago. I’ve read that there was a bidding war between record labels for the debut album release. That’s cool I guess, since it means their talents are being recognized by the industry. I just hope they can stay simple within their colourful complications. They are just guys grooving to their sound… and it’s hard to get tired of it because it’s not too out there, not too catchy and therefore not easy to get sick of.