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Feature - The Raveonettes |
The Raveonettes: Between Love and Lust
words by Elliot Cole
photos by Aubrey Edwards  Understandably, everything that The Raveonettes does is inexorably linked with an undercurrent of duality. They are a band ripe with contradiction, owing as much to a sense of history as they do to progressive, modern sensibilities. In the past, the band has delved into the zeitgeist of American culture, investing their sound in the styles of the 1950s and 1960s. Now, with the release of Lust Lust Lust, their diametrically opposed duality is coming to an immediate, clashing fruition. The Raveonettes have abandoned the interwoven relics of our Americana past, deserting the familiar smell of apple pie and the crack of baseball bats for something dirtier and far more squalid. It’s no longer time for white picket fences and all-night diners; forget the Norman Rockwell paintings and the spinning jukeboxes. The Raveonettes are now exposing the other end of the spectrum, divulging the unscrupulous, seedy underside of our souls to reveal the primal subconscious of America…and they like what they see.
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