CSS / Cansei de Ser Sexy

Cansei de Ser Sexy, better known as CSS, have already been making waves thanks to their song "Let's Make Love and listen to Death From Above". Let's face it, this tactic worked very well, because fans of LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, Black Dice et al will all have something they can identify with "ooh, they like the same music as me - and influences that are current, rather than pretending they have influences from 20 years ago!" James Murphy's DFA record label is infinitely popular amongst a certain section of the community.

However, the title of aforementioned song does not, in fact, allude to DFA Records, rather to the band Death From Above 1979. CSS's lead singer Lovefoxxx revealed that when she heard that aforementioned Electro-rockers had split up, she spent 24 hours solidly crying.
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CSS named themselves, in Portuguese, after a phrase allegedly uttered by Beyoncé once, which was 'I'm Tired of being Sexy'. It is a direct translation, and is much better than one of those boring names with 'The' at the beginning, isn't it?

NME have also described CSS as 'the coolest, raunchiest disco-pop', which can't be bad.
It also shows that, on very rare occasion, NME gets something right. That quote doesn't really tell the whole story though, because just as I'd describe a few of their songs as Punk-funk/disco-pop, most notably Let's Make Love, This Month and Music is my Hot Hot Sex; there are much harder moments on the album. Such moments include Patins and Art Bitch, which give a good nod to Riot Grrl roots lurking somewhere in there.
All this from a hugely-inventive synth band from Sao Paolo!

Anyway, here are the goodies.

Download: Let's Make Love and listen to Death From Above
Download: Meeting Paris Hilton
The B Side to recent single Alala: ódio, ódio, ódio, Sorry C

Read: Stylus Review of the CSS Album
Visit: CSS's gloriously ramshackle Official Site
and The CSS MySpace

Buy! The Album Cansei de Ser Sexy at Play.com <- and what a bargainous price too!