MUSIC - The Ark, "State of the Ark"

The Ark comes in on a fading wave of electronic static, and they ride that neon surf until all that glitters is bold. Caroming off a line like “We’ll go shim-shim shammey and get whimsy and get whammy,” the lead singer Ola Salo makes tracks like “Clamour for Glamour” a blitzkrieg of fun, even if those bombshells might need to drop some acid first to be real hits. Of course, some of those hits are abysmal craters, and halfway through State of the Ark, the band tumbles into it, as if “Let Me Down Gently” were an imperative rather than a track title.

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