Scissor Sisters
Carol Cooper, Village Voice, 4 June 2003
NO ONE-SENTENCE summation (no matter how correct or clever) really does justice to the Scissor Sisters. As a girdle-tight, piss-elegant rock unit unafraid to play "disco," they reinvent the exhilarating DIY eclecticism of '80s dance-oriented rock as if the '90s never happened.
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