On their second full-length release, Chicago's The M's play 21st-century rock with a T. Rex slant that encompasses the Bolanesque, acoustic "Light I Love" and the Beck-like "Shawnee Dupree." While they don't have corkscrew hair or the Bolan ear for eccentric lyrical poetry, they make their Strokes-like appreciation of the healing power of rock crystal clear on such songs-in-the-key-of-loud as the anthemic "My Gun" and "Plan of the Man."
Professional Reviews
Uncut (p.89) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The self-produced four-piece have harmonic strengths, write a crisp lyric and inject a lot of soulful energy into [their songs]...."
CMJ (p.4) - "FUTURE WOMEN echoes '60s garage rock but it's played in a jungle with elephant-trumpeting horns, graceful strings and tinkling xylophone pings."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.118) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[D]efiantly modern, post-modern even. Melodies twist and turn, strings phase in and out, bells chime."
