Blonde Redhead

A fierce, sun-choked sprawl of an album, arching from fast to slow, funkup to freakout, girl/boy voices intersecting in rapturous release, Blonde Redhead presents a band announcing themselves as powerfully as any rock contender in recent memory. Clocking in at just under a half hour, the record is a concise, pure, near-perfect statement of the template the band continues to expand.