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The West Coast girls may be hip and the Northern girls well adept at lip-locking, but no girls have more fun than those Robertsfors, Sweden girls.
That is, if the quartet making up the Sahara Hotnights is any indication. On the band�s U.S. debut, �Kiss and Tell,� a joyous rock sound engineered for smooth propulsion brings about the rarest of rock album feats these days: something you can dance to. (Experiments doing the running man to Nickelback have proved unfortunate.)

Sahara Hotnights

Kiss and Tell

Lead singer Maria Andersson�s Chrissy Hynde v 2.0 vocals lay front and center in the Sahara sound. On the first single, �Hot Night Crash,� a sing-along chorus and crisp guitars start off the party proper and there�s not much of a slowdown. A flourish of synthesizers helps in this effort, sprinkled about like flavor crystals on a stick of Cinneburst.
While comparisons of a female Hives (fellow countrymen) or the Donnas (rockin� femme fatales) are easy, the Sahara Hotnights� sound lacks the cultivated attitude of those bands. On �The Difference Between Love and Hell,� the swoon sets in, beautiful girls and a beautiful sound providing just enough energy to clap along to the beat.

Originally published in the September 2004 edition of Take ONE, as written by Hank Brockett

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