The Raveonettes: Whip It On

By RUSSELL BAILLIE

(Herald rating: * * *)

This boy-girl duo out of Denmark are cool enough to brag on the front of this, their mini-album debut offering that all its contents are "recorded in glorious B-flat minor".

But the real key to the music of Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo is the attitude - it's a blast of dreamy, overdriven, reverbed, guitar-wired and electronically powered mix of crackling rock complete with sleazy whispered pop tunes.

That can remind of predecessors from a decade or more ago, including the Jesus and Mary Chain, Curve and Dunedin's own Snapper.

But even if there's not much to differentiate the songs (sample titles Attack of the Ghost Riders, Bowels of the Beast), they're all suggestive enough and there's no escaping the Raveonettes' decadent B-movie appeal. Just hope they don't find another key and ruin everything.

Label: Sony