Product Description

According to the Raveonettes Sune Rose Wagner, it is incredibly hard being in a Danish rock n roll band cause of this damn thing we have called Jante Loven (Jante Law), which basically tells Danes not to feel superior to any other man, woman, child or beast. This translates into everyone being very scared of thinking highly of themselves and in the music world means that you re no better than this band or that band. Though Sharin & Sune love Denmark, they felt they had to leave in order to break the restricting chains of the Jante Law, but before they left, they hit up the Ministry of Culture for a couple of bucks in state sponsored tour support, called up Hilly Kristal and landed their first ever gig outside Denmark in the filthy, disgusting and legendary club known as CBGB s. Rolling Stone s David Fricke showed up along with 40 other paid admissions and the rest is pure rock n roll history...

From the time Don Ienner, the president of Columbia, asked the Raves to play Bob Dylan s old guitar for him and his posse, to the time Sune shook David Letterman s hand on national television, the expectations were high. At that time they had only released an 8 track EP entitled Whip It On and a noisy, low-fidelity album called Chain Gang Of Love. They released their final album for Columbia, Pretty In Black in 2005 and spent the next 2 years coming up with the sound and songs for Lust Lust Lust which was recorded in Sune s apartment in NYC.

The Raveonettes have always hated repeating themselves, and so they set the bar really high for In And Out Of Control . It s a strange mixture of modern and old, dark and happy. It s about rape, violence, lost love, suicide, not caring about what other people think of you and most importantly being mad and angelic! Jante Loven doesn t mean anything to the Raveonettes cause they know they made a better album than anybody else out there!

Track Listing

1. Bang!
2. Gone Forever
3. Last Dance
4. Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)
5. Heart Of Stone
6. Oh, I Buried You Today
7. Suicide
8. D.R.U.G.S.
9. Breaking Into Cars
10. Break Up Girls!
11. Wine

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73857 in Music
• Released on: 2009-10-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .15 pounds

Review
In And Out Of Control is pure, nonstop exhilaration --Billboard, October, 2009

Chilly, disturbing lyrics emerge from a dense fog of blissful Spector harmonies and Jesus and Mary Chain surf and strings --Spin, October 2009

Consistently making strong albums...their forthcoming In And Out Of Control may be their best to date --New York Magazine