Peggy Sue, "Yo Mama"
Peggy Sue, "Yo Mama"
But what really grabs LOM about Fossils is the lyrics and the way Rosa Slade and Katy Young deliver them. Beginning with the intriguing "Long Division Blues" - "our love is like long division" - Slade and Young sing with a sweetness that artfully masks furious anger and melancholy run wild. So far, our favorite track is "Yo Mama," and the lyric cuts like a psycho-scalpel:
"I'm gonna go downtown, I'm gonna find myself some fun/ I'm gonna go downtown, I'm gonna find myself someone/ Forget your hair, forget your smell until there's none/ I couldn't bear to sit and stare until they're gone/ I'm praying to gods I never need/ Saying I, I won't go out quietly."Yeah, when these ladies go through a break-up, they feel like murdering someone. In a charming way, of course. Peggy Sue is touring hard in Europe, and so far there are no U.S. dates on their calendar. That needs to change - the sooner, the better.
