Make Out

Make Out

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Jesper Mortensen, half of the Danish duo Junior Senior who came up with party anthems like “Move Your Feet,” must have been unsatisfied with all the pop trophies and film and TV placements. When he arrived in New York to form a new band, he recruited New York Dolls’ frontman David Johansen’s daughter Leah Hennessey to sing on a new project. Make Out is high energy, polished sass – much more Dolls punk than Junior Senior’s ’80s pastiche. “Find a lover in the middle of the night…Find a girl/Find a boy/Find something alright,” sings Hennessey over Mortensen’s succinct, In Utero-esque riff. There’s some of the classic rock and roll pathos of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”‘s in Hennessey’s “If you want it, I don’t want it.” The band has discussed their desire to make sharp pop music as a reaction to New York’s conceptual scene. Maybe that’s also a reaction to where they’ve decided to record – Brooklyn’s Rare Book Room, where Black Dice and Animal Collective have worked for years, and more recently Dirty Projectors recorded Bitte Orca. The band’s first single, “I Don’t Want Anybody That Wants Me,” was released in December, giving the music world a taste of what an EP will sound like in February.