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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Got Me Hanging On...

The RopesThe Ropes
Genre: Rock / Indie / New Wave
From: New York, United States


NYC based duo The Ropes are the beautifully named vocalist/bassist Sharon Shy (love to see her birth certificate) and the less brilliantly monickered multi-instrumentalist Toppy whose party piece is apparently to play drums with his guitar hanging around his neck.

I recently received an email from Natalie a Ropes 'street teamer'
and, although bands with a street team are usually big enough to stand on their own two feet without a helping hand from the Devil, I decided to check them out.

Am I glad I did because any band who can start a song with the immortal lines
'you can all go fuck yourself, you can all go burn in hell' like The Ropes do on the outrageously 'I Don't Like To Get Dirty' are all right by the Devil.

Natalie describes the band as something like The Knife meets Chromatics but I'm afraid I have to disagree as they are much closer to Garbage meets The Cardigans at a party thrown by Goldfrapp (original vintage). Check out the band's new single, the catchy as fuck 'Be My Gun', and tell me I'm wrong.

Go Try

MP3 -The Ropes - Too Cool For Love
MP3 - The Ropes - I Don't Like To Get Dirty
If anyone from the IFPI is reading these tracks are published with the permission of The Ropes so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright.

Go Visit

The Ropes - Myspace // Website

Go View

The Ropes
Be My Gun


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