Kevin Bronson on December 5th, 2013

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Maybe it’s the preponderance of rosey-cheeked synth-pop that’s come out of Sweden the past couple of years, but I confess that I almost forgotten about Division of Laura Lee. The brash quartet – think Primal Scream on a post-punk bender crashing a local skate park – blasted its way onto the scene in 2002 with “Black City,” via the same Burning Heart Records that deposited into our earholes the likes of the Hives, Turbonegro and the (International) Noise Conspiracy. Five years after a full-length that found the band treading water (2008’s “Violence Is Timeless”), DOLL returned this year with their fourth album, “Tree,” which was produced in part by Jason Lytle (Grandaddy). In some ways, these guys could be the shoegazing older cousins of FIDLAR. Either way, I’m feeling “Ruddlerless.”

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