The West Coast girls may be hip and the Northern girls well adept at lip-locking, but no girls have more fun than those Robertsfors, Sweden girls.
     That is, if the quartet making up the Sahara Hotnights is any indication. On the band’s U.S. debut, “Kiss and Tell,” a joyous rock sound engineered for smooth propulsion brings about the rarest of rock album feats these days: something you can dance to. (Experiments doing the running man to Nickelback have proved unfortunate.)
Sahara Hotnights
Kiss and Tell
       Lead singer Maria Andersson’s Chrissy Hynde v 2.0 vocals lay front and center in the Sahara sound. On the first single, “Hot Night Crash,” a sing-along chorus and crisp guitars start off the party proper and there’s not much of a slowdown. A flourish of synthesizers helps in this effort, sprinkled about like flavor crystals on a stick of Cinneburst.
     While comparisons of a female Hives (fellow countrymen) or the Donnas (rockin’ femme fatales) are easy, the Sahara Hotnights’ sound lacks the cultivated attitude of those bands. On “The Difference Between Love and Hell,” the swoon sets in, beautiful girls and a beautiful sound providing just enough energy to clap along to the beat.
Originally published in the September 2004 edition of Take ONE, as written by Hank Brockett
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Sunny skies for the Saharas - a B-plus!