Eat Sugar’s new disc, It’s Not Our Responsibility, will make any booty with a soul attached grow a mind of its own, get itself up off the chair and shake its proprietor around like a useless sack of meat. But while the bumpin’ backbeat is undeniable, Eat Sugar are far from routine, mindless dance-party rockers. There are no longhaired dudes in yellow sunglasses twiddling mystery knobs behind racks of esoteric electronic gear, no strobe light/fog machine live shows featuring androgynous band members in heavy makeup and absolutely no drum machines.
It’s Not Our Responsibility is slated for national release Sept. 1, and it was recorded and produced by Enon (formerly Brainiac) guitarist and singer John Schmersal. Eat Sugar roped him in after opening for Enon at the Gypsy Hut last year. Responsibility, which pushes the drums to the front of the mix, adds some occasional effects to the vocals and makes the keyboards sound more like distorted guitars than ever.
Eat Sugar plays an in-studio on woxy.com’s Lounge Acts at 4:30 p.m. Read Alex L. Weber’s interview with the band here.
This article appears in Jun 17-23, 2009.