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Illuminati Hotties, 'Let Me Do One More'
“Tenderpunk” is how singer-songwriter-producer-engineer Sarah Tudzin describes her music as Illuminati Hotties, and the group’s superb third album,Let Me Do One More,is as sweet, scrappy, silly, and sincere as that label suggests. Riffs and wicked one-liners rain down on songs like “Mmmoooaaaaayaya” and “Joni: LA’s No. 1 Health Goth,” but Tudzin’s equally shrewd, and devastatingly honest, on the country-tinged “u v v p,” the acoustic ballad “Growth,” and the love-in-the-end-times stunner “Threatening Each Other re: Capitalism.”
Let Me Do One Moreisn’t just loud, fast Illuminati Hotties, but it is — to crib a line from the excellent opener “Pool Hopping” — “all rippers, no more skippers.” —J.B.
