21st Century Foxes; Scissor Sisters' Peerless Perv-Pop

The Stranger | July 22, 2004| | Copyright

NOBODY HYPES like the British press, which greeted the debut LP by New York City's Scissor Sisters like the Second Coming. "This is the Scissor Sisters' first Greatest Hits collection," gushed Uncut upon the record's UK release (like other edgy American pop acts, the band was test-marketed on Brits first) while elder statesman NME praised the record's cache of songs that "stand up against pretty much anything ever written in the name of pop." With two decades' exposure to UK hype under my belt, I was wary. Were the Scissor Sisters--a ragtag band of thrift-store fashionistas purveying a ...

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