Shampoo is a tough duo of punk rock Barbie dolls who started in the recording industry when they were barely out of their teens. Hailing from Plumstead, England, Jacqui Blake and Carrie Askew both handle vocals in a highly energetic and barely intelligible fashion, and both have enough attitude and downright sass to make critics on both sides of the Atlantic go ga-ga over their primitive punk and sly innuendoes. Even though their talent is barely discernible (their singing often sounding like punk rock karoake) Shampoo never lacks wit and are always loads of fun.
We Are Shampoo, their full-length debut, features all of the jaw-dropping singles released in Britain including their anthem, "Trouble," which was featured on the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers soundtrack. Girl Power followed in 1996. In the past few years they have become very successful in Japan. Now they have released a new album, Absolute Shampoo, which has all of their fans excited.
New songs like "Inspector Gadget" and "Take A Break" are some of their best recordings to date. To their benefit, they have reunited with Saint Etienne on part of this record yet again. I talked to them recently about their new CD which they have marketed themselves over the internet.
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