The Raveonettes: Lust Lust Lust

The Raveonettes seem content to simply squeeze

every imaginable ounce of usable influence out of The Jesus And Mary Chain.

That's the essence of Lust Lust Lust, their third album, and that was the drive

behind the two before it, though they also found time for occasional detours

into Sonic Youth knockoffs. Lust Lust Lust doesn't look to the greatness of the first

two JAMC albums, either: It sticks to the neutered sounds of later,

drug-drained releases like Automatic, Honey's Dead, and Stoned And

Dethroned.

On "Blush," the guitar makes a decent noise, but when sonic plagiarism is this

brazen, the songs need to be better. One big difference: The Raveonettes'

prescription calls for the "sultry" vocals and fashion-forward presence of

Sharin Foo, who still fails to distance herself from the Shirley

Manson-meets-'90s-rockabilly/garage-rock-revival crutch. It's a narrow frame of

reference that The Raveonettes seem likely to stick with; hopefully, on future

albums, the songs will get more memorable than this batch.