Drizzle EP
Label: The First Time
Media: CD
Format: Album
WorkNameSort: Drizzle EP
Unlike the obnoxious arena-pop tendencies of his last group (Other Star People, which also featured Jennifer Finch and Todd Phillips), Xander Smith’s new band plays to his fashion-plate sensibilities by combining lush atmospherics and solid melodies with an unmistakable swagger. The result is this five-track debut EP, which distills the more beautiful aspects of a band that’s clearly a live powerhouse. If The Raveonettes are the shallow — but totally fuckable — cousins of The Jesus and Mary Chain, the rockist haze that Run Run Run creates makes them the big brothers that beat up on everyone in the family.
This article appears in Feb 11-17, 2004.