The Bravery are Badasses

Look at those rebels. Man. They know what’s up. Seriously. They’re revolutionizing music. In the same way that the Killers did it. You know, mash up some synth pop with a dash of the Cure and maybe a little Duran Duran, do your best to seem ambiguously Eurotrash, and become Rolling Stone’s next biggest little thing.

To their credit, though, the Bravery’s creatively self-titled debut album doesn’t exactly copy the Killers’ method. But that’s mostly because it isn’t as good. I have only listened to it once, but that’s really all I needed. It sounds forced, and it doesn’t make me feel anything. Somehow, through a chain of bands beginning with, say, Interpol and leading through Phantom Planet, the Strokes, and, most recently, the Killers, there has emerged a Scary Dialectic of Shit (SDoS ™ ). Maybe I’ll diagram it sometime.

That said, you can listen to “The Ring Song” once without hating it, so don’t think I’m saying it’s all bad.