Artist: Cocktail Slippers

Title: St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

Publication: The Oklahoman

Date: February 13, 2009

http://newsok.com/cd-review-cocktail-slippers-st.-valentines-day-massacre/article/3345375

ROCK
(Wicked Cool Record Co.)

When a dude labels his anthology series "The Coolest Songs in the World” and backs up his audacious claim through seven solid volumes of garage-rock manna from heaven, his musical recommendations can be trusted implicitly. So, if Steven Van Zandt loves the Cocktail Slippers, you should, too.

The E Street Band guitarist and creator/host of "Little Steven’s Underground Garage” is so enamored of this all-girl Norwegian quintet that he signed the group to his Wicked Cool label in 2007 for their U.S. album debut, "Mastermind.” He even kicked in a few original songs, including the title cut on the Slippers’ latest, "St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.” On it, Van Zandt’s touch immediately is felt in the ’60s girl-group-influenced rhythm, keyboard and backing-vocal arrangement that also recalls the ’70s Runaways and ’80s Go-Go’s.

The Van Zandt-penned bad-girl-loves-bad-boy mambo of "Heard You’ve Got a Thing for Me” is another standout in a rough and ready female attitude fest that also hits high marks with such party-starting originals as "Go Get It,” "Superstitious” and "In the City.”

— Gene Triplett