he current crop of post-punk/no-wave bands popping up every second is getting better by the minute and making it hard not to wee your pants with each new release. The other big movement, the garage rock scene, sees quite a few copycats popping up here and there, making it harder to differentiate between The D4 and The Datsuns*. With this whole post-punk thing, it seems to allow more unrestrictive musical boundaries. A whole slew of bands have their own personalities to go with their cool names, with each one starting a new craze with sounds that were created two decades ago. Interpol have the gloomy, cold aura of Joy Division; Erase Errata are The Slits with a more punk edge; and Liars twist elements of The Fall and Gang Of Four into their own spastic pretzel.

The Rogers Sisters (actually two sisters, Jen and Laura Rogers with a guy named Miyuki Furtado) are being hailed as the "first no-wave party band". They have all of the artistic elements in check, yet they also have a strong knowledge of adding the right ingredients to make even myself want to dance (which is getting much harder as I grow older and crustier). Purely Evil, their long-awaited debut album, is offbeat, constantly out of tune and an effective party ignitor. Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a great funk punk band with the tendency to induce dancing, but they haven't a thing on The Rogers Sisters when it comes to keeping it going.

Purely Evil rarely loses its rhythm throughout its 11 songs. It is a perfect product of a collaborative studio session with Liliput and the B-52s (with Furtado even achieving high levels of Fred Schneider weirdness). The cover art may make some to believe that it's all political rants in the lyrical department because of it's Anti-Bush, anti-celebrity collage, but instead, the lyrics are surprisingly entertaining and not very troubled. A tribute to the great Freddie Mercury (who must hold some sort of record for most musical tributes) is definitely the highlight of the album. Simply titled. "A Song For Freddie", it features some great lines like "He wants to ride his bicycle/He wants to ride it all day long/He wants to ride it through this song", as well as mentioning "radio ga ga" and his "lovely overbite".

The Rogers Sisters unconventional pop music is a beautiful thing. It rarely slows down, and when it does, it loses a little of its spark, but what they do on 80% of Purely Evil is near picture perfect. This sub-genre still maintains a "flawed is beautiful" mentality and with that in mind, this debut album is as good as it gets (that is until the over-hyped Yeah Yeah Yeahs album gets a release).

*I am an admirer of both The D4 and The Datsuns, but at times, I find their tunes to be interchangeable, like Barbie outfits.