In 2003, Brooklyn electroclash outfit Fannypack unleashed their debut album, SO STYLISTIC. Propelled by hip-hop beats and fronted by three young ladies, the record's adolescent ditties about lip balm, crushes, and girls with tight pants ("Cameltoe") scored airplay in clubs all over the country. Was Fannypack for real or just schtick? No one seemed to care as long as the dance party kept going.
If SO STYLISTIC was high school, Cat, Belinda, and Jessibel have definitely graduated here, as SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY sheds the youthful innocence and replaces it with more mature, dynamic content. The album opens with the Miami bass-style "Intro," moving to the marching-band-backed, cheerleader sex romp "Keep It Up." The genre-hopping lands on dancehall reggae in the Brooklyn tribute "Seven One Eight" and contemporary hip-hop in "Feet & Hands." With the giddy innocence of SO STYLISTIC gone, SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY delivers solid, fun party anthems designed for clubs, particularly "Keep On," in which Cat, Belinda, and Jessibel will "make you scream like Howard Dean."