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Morningwood

MORNINGWOOD | Capitol
By KERRY L. SMITH  |  February 22, 2006
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TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES Morningwood's Chantal Claret usually proves persuasiveIt takes a certain breed of female frontwoman to persuade a sweaty mass of NYC kids to “take off your clothes” — and at Morningwood shows, Chantal Claret usually gets the crowd to do just that. The 23-year-old stiletto-heeled singer brings her sex-kitten persona to a testosterone-fueled boys party of ’70s-style hard rock, and she has no problem holding her own on the NYC foursome’s homonymous debut. She screams with the desperation of a rock-starved teenager on the hard-driving “Televisor,” complains “I’m tired of sleeping in strange beds” on the salacious “Jetsetter,” and piles on the attitude on the seductive and naughty “Babysitter.” Produced by guitar-friendly Gil Norton (the Pixies, Belly), Morningwood’s debut is good, not-so-clean fun that fits Claret’s arena-rock antics like a skin-tight vintage rock T-shirt.

Morningwood + Head Automatica | Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street, Boston | Feb 25 | 617.228.6000

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