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“Sweet Temptation” manages the perfect cheap trick of gluing together hissing four-to-the-floor disco drums, wavering sequencer blat, lumbering ‘rock bass’, power chords and alternately diffident and commanding chants into some of the stickiest, sugariest bubblegum since The Sweet or The Runaways or whoever your ugly-glam faves are.
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A monumental, super compressed square wave block of sound, this should've been an anthem somewhere, anywhere, this year. Here Lillix, previously an attempt to girl-group the Avril Lavigne sound, chew up blood red bubble-gum pop, four-to-the-floor kicks, hissing hi-hat, heavy disco basslines, and sequenced synths that would sound home on a Lindstrøm cosmo-house epic. Then, power chords and group chants inflate the track to its bursting point.
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It's Avril Lavigne/Kelly Clarkson et al's teenage glam-grunge with an added dose of Killer-esque retro-modern sounds.
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This is as catchy as The Sweet or The Runaways or Cheap Trick and as rocking as, well, the three bands just named. If I don't get to leap around to this drunk and sweaty by the end of the year, then this year will have been wasted. A snot nosed, boot-stomping triumph.
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The Killers' best song to date, and Lillix's best song, too. I still wonder what this would sound like with Hilary Duff on vocals, since Lillix sort of playfully shout around the high note in the chorus that Hilary could have hit yawning 'but she already had her chance to sing the Killers' best song, which is now only their second-best song.
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Like watching anime action-adventure.
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