With titles like "I'm A Slut," how could you possibly go wrong with Bis? Well, quite easily, actually. Listen to songs like "Eurodisco" or "Making People Or Normal" or, well, pretty much any track off of Social Dancing, their latest effort. The music is shallow and uninspired; the lyrics are unengaging and sappy. Are they trying to insult people by creating a song based off of the stereotypical Asian riff and titling it "Theme From Tokyo"?

While it's perfectly understandable that the band might have wanted to pass this off as something a bit higher up the food chain than the shallow pop cliché, don't fall for their tricks. If Social Dancing is intended to be humourous, then treat it like an unfunny joke: tough it out once and then become bitter whenever you hear it again.

Bis

Social Dancing

Grand Royal/Capitol

reviewed by Chris Kelly