Seriously too groovy and timely for US indie radio, Gram Rabbit tries a lot of different styles on for size – straightjacket shoegaze bliss to post-Kashmir grunge ringouts – and instead of the usual tuneless muck that spells alt for lack of a more honest pigeonhole, it’s this hypnotic, earthshakingly cool cross between Enigma, Madonna, Jesus & Mary Chain and anything else that’s been heard on radio in the past fifty years capable of filling out a bunny suit (download hotXXX belly-shirt jpgs of Jesika von Rabbit before there are fees). Handshake track “Waiting in the Country” fuses Warlocks-like slam-chording to Jesika’s icy (and refreshingly on-key) full-reverb warning about things unknown, and before you know it our gal is gakking out a pre-fame Cyndi Lauper hairball over some Pac Man disco (Bloody Bonnies”). So now, two decent songs have gone by and you think you’ve got it pegged, but the saloon doors open for “Angel Song” to come sauntering in with one of those Telstar guitars from out of Quentin Tarantino’s weird record collection, an acoustic piano tinkling mournfully by its side, and the vocals are taken over by Todd Rutherford emulating the Byrds, and that’s when you decide on a permanent home for the CD somewhere in the car no matter how weird things get (and boy, do they ever).
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