Night Dolls with Hairspray
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| Studio album by Lamborghini Crystal | ||||
| Released | October 31, 2010 | |||
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| Length | 48:15 | |||
| Label | Olde English Spelling Bee | |||
| Producer | James Ferraro | |||
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| Fact | 4/5 |
| Pitchfork | 7.9/10 |
| Playground | 7.9/10 |
Night Dolls with Hairspray is the final studio album of American electronic musician James Ferraro's project Lamborghini Crystal, released on October 31, 2010 by the independent record label Olde English Spelling Bee. Described as a "cycle of bubblegum pop songs," the album's lo-fi sound draws on sources such as 1980s pop culture tropes and glam punk. It garnered generally favorable reviews from music journalists, and was called "weirdo masterpiece of the 21st century" by Impose.
In an interview, Ferraro claimed he had gotten into "weird street fashion" while recording Night Dolls with Hairspray, which in term led the record to be influenced by glam rock and power pop styles. Most of Night Dolls with Hairspray involves Ferraro exaggeratedly singing in castrato. Ferraro reasoned that the singing style was "silly" and "harmless," and led the album to sound "cool" and "futuristic."Pitchfork described the album's overall instrumentation as consisting of "plunging bass lines, warped guitar riffs, and crooning vocals" that "bounce around the stereo space like lasers in a hall of mirrors." A reviewer for Playground magazine described the tracks as "fragmentary songs," in that it feels like each track cuts to different songs; this "collage effect" is an essential part of hypnagogic pop, in that the variety of 1980s musical styles serve as an "exercise in nostalgia."
According to FACT, Night Dolls with Hairspray explores the surfaces of popular media in the 1980s. In doing so, Ferraro creates new bad behaviors to scenarios that are common in B movies released in the decade, wrote Nick Richardson of FACT. "Leather High School" takes place in a 1980s high school movie situation, but adds a sexual context that would not be present in most movies of this genre released in the decade. As Ferraro sings, "The principal’s wearing panties under his suit / they’re taking him down to the boiler room. They’re going to whip him till he bleeds." "Buffy Honkerburg’s Answering Machine" involves the singer as a stalker nerd sending lewd messages to a cheerleader in a slasher film scenario.
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