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Venus On Earth (CD)

By: Dengue Fever (Artist)

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Dengue Fever Artist Snapshot:

Modeled after the psychedelic, farfisa-driven 1960s garage-rock that was (and remains) popular in Cambodia, Los Angeles's Dengue Fever, together since 2001, are one of the more colorful hybrids in the indie-pop world, Charismatic lead singer Chhom Nimol vocalizes Khmer lyrics in an otherworldy soprano, backed expertly by brothers Zac and Ethan Holtzman. The music is hypnotic, danceable, and unlike almost any other American indie band.

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DISC 1 for Venus On Earth (CD) Album By Dengue Fever (Artist)
1   Seeing Hands
2   Clipped Wings
3   Tiger Phone Card
4   Woman In The Shoes
5   Sober Driver
6   Monsoon Of Perfume
7   Integration
8   Oceans Of Venus
9   Laugh Track
10   Tooth & Nail
11   Mr. Orange
 

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Review

Spin (p.96) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "VENUS ON EARTH feels impulsive and rich, rippling with surf psychedelia and exultant brass swing."
Uncut (p.78) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hey've moved further from pastiche....So beautifully and effectively, in fact, that they end up giving fusion a good name."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.110) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Their] horizons broaden....A set that grows in strength with each play."
Blender (Magazine) (pp.97-98) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[F]ront-loaded with the transcendent 'Seeing Hands' and the savvy bicultural duets 'Tiger Phone Card' and 'Sober Driver'."

Title Note

Dengue Fever: Zac Holtzman (vocals, guitar); Chhom Nimal (vocals); David Ralicke (horns); Ethan Holtzman (keyboards); Senon Gaius Williams (bass guitar); Paul Dreux Smith (drums, percussion).

Additional personnel: Gordon "Nappy G" Clay (percussion).

Recording information: Box Kite, Los Angeles, CA.

This Los Angeles-based band features a Cambodian vocalist (she sings in both English and Khmer) and takes as its primary inspiration the Cambodian rock of the 1960s. As there isn't exactly an overload of bands playing retro-psychedelic Cambodian rock in America in the 2000s, Dengue Fever stands out, and especially so with their beautifully realized second album, VENUS ON EARTH.

Dengue Fever's music is a heady cocktail of reverb-laden guitar, Farfisa organ, horns, and shuffling rhythms that channels jazz, lounge music, Southeast Asian pop, and spy movie music. "Woman in Her Shoes" sounds like a cross between Nico and the Zombies, and "Seeing Hands" recalls a mix of the Velvet Underground and a Bollywood tune, while "Monsoon of Perfume" is as effortlessly entrancing as Roy Orbison. In short, it's hard to classify VENUS ON EARTH, which is exactly what makes it refreshing.

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5 out of 5 stars Dengue Fever is sick !, February 29, 2008
By Sweet Monsoon
You have never heard anything like this. It might take you aback first listen but you quickly become acquainted with the trippy hybrid insanity they have to offer. Enjoy.

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