TCB
By Christopher Gray, Fri., April 11, 2003
Slipped Disc
NOW YOU SEE 'EM
Black Lipstick succeeded the Kiss Offs as Peek-a-Boo's flagship band in early 2001. Ex-Kiss Offs Phillip Niemeyer and Peek-a-Boo jefe Travis Higdon are joined by bassist Steve Garcia and drummer Elizabeth Nottingham. Converted Thieves is their first full-length CD.
ENLIGHTENED ROGUES
Converted Thieves uses sedate guitar pop and disaffected post-punk to illustrate the band's charcoal sketches of rakish twentysomethings reluctantly putting their carefree collegiate days behind them, but nowhere near ready to settle into a life of corporate complacency.
GEE, THANKS FOR NOTHING "When they kick the shit out of you," sings Niemeyer on opener "Voodoo Economics," "we can kick the shit back in."
(Release party tonight, Thursday, at the Mercury with Octopus Project and Sound Team.)
