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...poppers Stereo Total seem to always summon the same images in American minds: trendy coffee bars, tightly-dressed Euro hipsters, neon lights against shadowy backgrounds. It’s certainly the style their album covers more or less convey, especially prominent on their new Sub Pop debut Do The Bambi, on whose cover a green deer logo and the album’s title illuminate the faces of the band from above...
...Bambi stays true to Total’s formula. Track after track pummel the listener with disorienting lyrics that somehow have the same effect whether they’re in French, German and English: a fun sleaze, a purposeful blow-up of our conceptions of Euro-trash culture. “I am Naked,” the album’s lead single, is a prime example, as German singer Brezel Goring prattles on in kitty-cat vocals at a second-grade register about the virtues of nudity. The bad translations (and the frequent intrusion of a gruff gravelly...
...luck ladies of Chelsea. What might just seem like an odd note to go out on is just another part of the Total humor: and it’s this unique spirit, love it or hate it, that defines Stereo Total, never so much as on Do The Bambi...
Americans tend to be queasy about game meats on their dinner plates. Rabbit conjures up visions of Bugs and the Easter bunny; venison, of Bambi's mom. It doesn't help that many diners' first (and often only) experience with game is from chewing on strong and, well, gamy-tasting meat from tough old deer hunted for sport. But the increasing number of game farms over the past decade means that the deer, bison and caribou that make it to consumers' plates these days were probably raised on ranches. And, like beef cattle, they tend to be slaughtered after about...
Your brief report on hunters who may have died from a version of mad-cow disease, "Deadly Feast: Can Venison Kill You?" [Science, Aug. 12], should rightly have been titled "Bambi Gets Even!" I've argued in the past that hunting is not a sport, because if it were, both sides would be comparably matched. But now perhaps it truly can be called a sport--with both hunters and prey having an equal opportunity to kill each other. CHERIE TRAVIS Downers Grove...