Noisettes: What's the Time Mr. Wolf?

CML call number: CD ROCK Noisettes
Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in the New Yorker: "'What’s the Time Mr. Wolf?' [is] a smart, relentlessly exuberant thirty-eight-minute demonstration of chutzpah and musicianship, despite the band’s affinity with the fizzy amateur energy of punk. The twenty-six-year-old singer Shingai Shoniwa … looks like an African supermodel. … Shoniwa’s voice occasionally sounds a bit like PJ Harvey’s, especially on the pounding 'IWE,' if Harvey were a bit higher on life. There are moments when Shoniwa screams like a 1976 punk, and then drops down and sings like a balladeer. The range of 'What’s the Time Mr. Wolf?' is flummoxing in the most pleasant way. 'Cannot Even (Break Free)' is a waltz that starts like one of Radiohead’s quieter moments, forgets what it’s doing, and turns into a Led Zeppelin song with an extremely sharp edge. 'Don’t Give Up' will make more than one person think of a very hopped-up version of the White Stripes, while 'Count of Monte Christo [sic]' is a sunny acoustic number that might make it past a Norah Jones fan. Except for this bit when Shoniwa starts to, well, let loose" ("Pop Notes: The Shoniwa Show," 4/16/07).