CSS - Planta (iTunes Version)
When they formed in São Paulo in 2003, this hilarious bunch of baile-funkin’ art-pop pranksters took their name from a Beyoncé quote: CSS is short for Cansei De Ser Sexy, or “I got tired of being sexy” in Portuguese. Ten years later, the Brazilians aren’t quite so up-to-the-second on popular culture. Where their 2005 debut had a zeitgeisty track called ‘Meeting Paris Hilton’, album four features one with the title ‘Frankie Goes To North Hollywood’. Now reduced to a four-piece following the departure of guitarist-producer Adriano Cintra (who wrote the bulk of the band’s earlier hits) CSS have drafted in TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek to produce ‘Planta’, but he’s been given a thin soup to season. The recipe is basically stale electro-pop sprinkled with rock and reggae – and CSS include just two chunks of satisfying tuneage: ‘Into The Sun’, which is genuinely anthemic, and the lusty ‘Too Hot’, a rare glimpse of sexy on an album.
It's worth noting that TV on the Radio’s David Sitek stepped in to executive produce Planta. His flair is something you hear on “Honey”, an open love-letter that burns along to flying, cinematic synth melodies worthy of Santigold or TVOTR-- morse-code blurts of bass, and vintage roller-rink strobe lights. Instrumentally it’s an electro pop stan’s dream, gloriously cheesy in all the right places. “Sweet” and “Teenage Tiger Cat” fare similarly; expansive cinematics with casually provocative snares that break into relentless bass and bop-along electric guitar.
Genres: Alternative, Music, Electronic
℗ 2013 SQE Music
Released: Jun 11, 2013
Tracklist:
01 Honey
02 Hangover
03 Into the Sun
04 Girlfriend
05 Dynamite
06 Sweet
07 Too Hot
08 Teenage Tiger Cat
09 Frankie Goes to North Hollywood
10 The Hangout
11 Faith in Love
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