The Gossip's Rick Rubin-produced Columbia debut, Music for Men, is due out in June, and the first single, "Heavy Cross," is now streaming at the band's MySpace. There's a bigger and glossier sheen, where the band's past albums have still had easily apparent vestiges of grime, that's been excised with "Heavy Cross." Rubin basically bet the farm on the Gossip, and they certainly deliver one of their most pop-leaning songs to date; Beth Ditto's vocals are moved way out front, while the guitars and synths are set firmly to "rock-disco."
The "Heavy Cross" single is due out on June 15, while Music for Men is due out on June 22. [via Pitchfork]
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Is this the band with the great big fat person singing--Oh look at that it is.
In ALL SERIOUSNESS, though, I've never really gotten these guys or their popularity. Also, they seem like one of these bands that is hyped to the moon for no particular reason, and the support from actual fans is never really there in as big a way as it may seem. But I guess I could be wrong.