Record Review: Scissor Sisters

Scissor Sisters - Night Work   3/5

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With the album's Mapplethorpe inspired cover, it's hard to be shocked by the Scissor Sisters, overtly sexual third album. Night Work, leaves the bands accessible campy 70s dance pop for a record of sleazy 80s pop obsessed with the wee hours of the morning at your local gay bar.

"Harder You Get," is a disco-metal hybrid, looking for the next available lap to grind, while "Skin This Cat" and "Something Like This" are drenched in synth pop. "Running Out" is 80s Bowie-esque cheese that manages to spin itself into a charming track. The lyrical themes are entrenched in gay culture, the tone and sounds are darker than any of their previous work, with the less than coy ballad "Skin Tight," is a Trojan condom ad, in a pretty neon pop package.

Though the album lacks potential singles, it spins the bands familiar sounds just right, to find new and dynamic avenues. Night Work makes no apologies for it's tone or subject matter, but it limits the band's previously broad appeal, as it's raunchy, sexual vibe is slightly over worked.