Feb 27, 2021
I picked up this very early Flesh For Lulu EP, “Blue Sisters Swing,” last week and finally got to give it a spin. Put aside the rhetorically antagonistic cover—two nuns kissing while a third spies on them—and it’s not bad at all. FFL was a transparently careerist band—across their short run of a few years, they played a bunch of different styles and don’t seem to have really cared about trends or scenes so long as they got to keep playing. So they did Goth for a while, pop when they had their hits, an intellectual Billy Idol thing on their final (and best) album, Plastic Fantastic, and so on. Here, they do a mishmash of Boy-era U2 (especially on “Seven Hail Marys”), Stones and The Doors.
