Gene Loves Jezebel - "Exploding Girls" @ Score! Music Magazine

	Gene Loves Jezebel - Exploding Girls
	Location	National
	Initial Impression	Haven’t I been seeing them on VH1 Classic lately?
Notable Lyric	"There you fly with your daggers, your wings, your feathers around you." - "The Wanting Song"
Factoid	Sad but true, Michael hasn’t spoken to his twin brother Jay since 1997 when they legally wrangled over rights to the band name.
Serve With	My “This is what a feminist looks like” t-shirt.
Comments	Albums like this make me damn proud to be a woman (they also make me want to congratulate Aston’s wife for her good choice). Instead of sappy angsty non-specific love songs, Michael has crafted a series of moody odes to female courage and dedication. Like “Jenin”, inspired by 23 year-old American Rachel Corey who was run over while trying to stop an Israeli bulldozer from razing a family home. Welsh-born, Ashton launches into a full-on examination of the blind patriotism of Americans during this latest conflict in “Downhill Both Ways”, and explores the sacrifices of women during war in “Two Hungry Women” and the title track. Gene Loves Jezebel has undergone many shifts over their twenty-one years, but as Aston states, their intent was always to make confrontational music. With Exploding Girls he succeeds again.
URL	Gene Loves Jezebel
Reviewer	Cristy (09/03)