Win a copy of the Rogers Sisters' 'The Invisible Deck'
We have three copies of this release to give away courtesy of Remote Control Records
"The title comes from a card trick our father used to do when we were kids," says Jennifer Rogers (vocals, guitar), explaining why the Brooklynbased trio titled their new album, The Invisible Deck. "It's mind-blowing, like real magic. Plus, we thought the word deck had a lot of different implications – decks are stacked and played, people and halls are decked, there are tape decks. The word invisible has a double meaning too; it can mean powerless or it can mean sneaky."
The Rogers Sisters have been an underground secret since the turn of the century, as anyone who's witnessed their hip-shaking, synapse-firing live show can attest. Building on the spiky dancefloor manoeuvres of last year's Three Fingers mini-album and 2002's debut LP Purely Evil, The Invisible Deck exudes a melodic intensity that should transform them from in-concert maestros to home-listening favourites.
"For the new album we experimented by writing music with a more classic song structure," explains non-female sister Miyuki Furtado (vocals, bass). "Something that exhibited my melancholy and sinister personality", he slyly added. "Jennifer feels that her tunes have always had a dark side, but that may have been disguised in earlier Rogers Sisters songs, beneath either girl group energies or more arty peculiarities."
Although they're not a bar band in the traditional sense, The Rogers Sisters began their own career in a drinking den. Jennifer put the group together the day before their first gig: a birthday party at Enid's, a place run by some friends of hers in the Greenpoint district of Brooklyn. "We did a cover of Ike & Tina Turner's version of 'You Are My Sunshine'," she remembers, "with Happy Birthday lyrics. It was reckless and by the skin of our teeth. That's how a lot of our shows were in the first couple of years. We still have that energy, but nowadays we try to play the right notes."
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