THE HEROINE SHEIKS
Siamese Pipe (Rubric)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Former Cows frontman and bugle-player extraordinare Shannon Selberg is back with record #2 of his "new" band, Heroine Sheiks, joined by former Swans guitarist Norman Westberg, percussionist John Fell, and bassist Eric Able. While the Cows were fun and noisy and crazy, and, I suppose, scary to those who thought valuable instruments were being destroyed, this band is scary, and in such a beautiful, calculated kind of way, with droning, dragging bass lines, weird keyboard squawks, deranged vocals and lyrics about murder and jealousy and kiddie porn and addiction. Strangely enough, every song on this record sounds completely different from the last, even down to style (which ranges from mock-country to dirty blues to punk), yet the whole album fits together so well listening to it's like watching an extremely complicated movie unfold in your head. My only quibble with the album is that pop artist Lazlo did the cover, and while that's okay in itself, these pictures look a little too close to Michael Diana rip-offs to me, and that just makes me sad.

© 2002 - Holly Day