NYC glam rock troupe Semi Precious Weapons has been around since 2006, and the past year and a half has been good to the group. They signed a deal with Interscope Records, toured across the country, and released their sophomore album, You Love You.

You Love You can be described as a very “acquired taste”. It is not the kind of music you play for your parents, or small children. The group’s style is very Bowie-esque – more so costume than in sound, but when listening to songs like “Put A Diamond On It” or “Sticky With Champagne”, the group’s own influences shine through. Listening to You Love You is like waking up back in the seventies in the middle of a cocaine-fueled orgy. The songs are so ridiculously over the top, they almost work.

Intro track “Semi Precious Weapons” sounds exactly like Jet’s “Cold Hard Bitch”, only dirtier. The rest of the songs on the album are of similar sound and caliber – fine-tuned musical foreplay. The group switches it up only once, playing a slower track, “Leave Your Pretty To Me”, which is surprisingly sweet.

Most of the album however, celebrates hedonism, for example, in “Statues Of Ourselves” ; over-the-top partying, and shallow outer beauty. SPW are not hiding true meanings or using metaphors either, sometimes, crude as it might be, the band just shouts it out “I can’t pay my rent/but I’m fucking gorgeous.”

All in all, listening to Semi Precious Weapon’s major label debut makes the listener feel like a shower is in order. Thankfully, You Love You is easy to get on board with. Lead singer Justin Tranter sings (and screams and hollers) like he really believes he is fucking gorgeous – and makes fans believe that they might just be too.