Considering that Debbie Harry (who lends her vocals to this project) has called Heloise & The Savoir Faire her favorite band and the fact that this NY outfit is the face of Elijah Wood’s new label, Simian Records, it would appear that the six-piece have efficiently picked the right f’ing time and the right f’ing place. Trash, Rats and Microphones is tailor-made for the contemporary electro-crazed (dance like tomorrow ain’t promised) landscape. The record is a romp full of filthy ’70s guitar riffs and they’re also resurrecting or outright re-inventing the keyboard riff. Frontgrrl Heloise Williams is a hellbent jaguar. Her vocals have teeth. On tracks like ‘Datsun 280z’ she sinks her incisors into the ocean of guitar and on her duet with Ms. Harry, ‘Canadian Changs,’ those fangs draw blood against the Miami Vice horns. Craftily sequenced, the transitions on Trash are damn-near cinemtatic, from the relatively low-tech opening on ‘Illusions’ (which is the ‘young girl with a voice and a dream’ scene) all the way to the climactic ‘Odyle’ (which is the full grown girl with a chainsaw scene). It’s enough to make every blondie proud.
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