Sweethead – The Great Disruptors (Strange Addiction)
3/5
By: Mariota Spens
Take one sexy as hell woman and three guys dressed in dirty-looking business suits and you get Sweethead. Their debut single ‘The Great Disruptors’, is a sultry, low-beat tune that shifts seamlessly between the seductive vocals of sex-bomb Serrina Sims, and the equally hypnotically alluring guitar solos of Troy Van Leeuwen (formerly of Queens of the Stone Age), accompanied by a beating heart bass riff and a quick but rhythmic drum beat. Together they have this grungy-secretary vibe - like a group of redundant city workers who don’t know what else to wear, which somehow feels not entirely inappropriate at present.
The shining emblem of Sweethead is Sims - a woman whose voice is soaked with gentle seduction and an air of acquiescence, similar to that of Blondie or The Long Blondes, yet with a darker, less girly-girl tone to it. As for the band’s Queens of the Stone Age origins, it does have some clear similarities, yet Sims‘ vocals manage to lead their sound down a more sultry, smoky path.
It’s true that they haven’t exactly broken any boundaries, but you can’t take away the fact that they have me reaching for my red lipstick.
Artists in this article: Sweethead
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