Buy our debut LP, Trouble Eyes, here. 90.3 KEXP Seattle's Song of the Day for "She's A Company Man" on 1/29/09Private Dancer flaunts their punk, surf, and garage leanings for all to hear (and proudly file themselves under such labels). Anyone with an ear for music is bound to find something enjoyable about the Minnesota fivesome’s hodge podge of classic rock motifs. Bombastic percussion, jangly rhythm guitars, sing-along vocals, and quick, sloppy solos encompass Private Dancer’s all-out assault on modern indie ‘rock.’ Rather than focus on trying to recapture a sound or a time that no longer exists, Private Dancer choose to entertain by playing whatever riff they cough from their smoke-blackened lungs. Perhaps nothing more than just a great bar band, Private Dancer deliver rock and roll from a place most of us have never seen and few of us would ever venture.
Foxy Digitalis 8/10You know those bands that try to combine 70s rock with lame 90s rock and end up sounding like bad copies of bands that were already shitty? Private Dancer offers relief from your despair. “Trouble Eyes” borrows from the 70s, but in wise and irreverent ways, and it slaps most of the 90s upside the head with its chops and smarts. This is loud, snotty Rawk with heart, thank god.
Minneapolis' Radio K 770 Weekly Release Spotlight for the week of October 19thTrouble Eyes may even just fall in line as one of the most promising debuts of a Minnesotan artist this year. It's brisk like the group's formation, with a track list of just eight songs, but there is arguably no filler whatsoever. Every track wails into the next, yet allows time for quasi-instrumental respites ("1000 Year Wave" and "A Horse Named Reverb"). But even these tunes grab the ears with steady and satisfying climbs to climaxes with multiple noisy polyphonic guitar licks driving each along the way. And the vocally-oriented numbers are, simply put, just the best kind of party: opener "I See Trouble" and "She's A Company Man" pummel with brash sing-along moments while the penultimate "Ain't Leavin' No More" is a closing time anti-theme, guilelessly proclaiming that they will not go away. Let's hope not -- this is a local band we don't want to see disintegrate prematurely.
City Pages Picked to Click 2008Like a Zen mantra, fun echoes in every bass line, in each of Achen's perspiring dance moves. It is the manifesto that unites them to one another, and to the crowds that power-pack the floors of so many Turf Club Saturdays. And though their approach is a purposeful meander, onstage and on record the band's sense of carefree exploration galvanizes into something far greater than mere whimsy, and the catharsis of their easy collaboration is the God particle that gives the band such appealing meaning.
From the Minnesota DailyConsidering their guitar-driven sound, indulgent solos, yelped vocals, general no-B.S. approach and their apparent hotdog obsession, two things become abundantly clear about Private Dancer: they have a profound respect for the organic elements of rock that late ’70s punk acts helped salvage and — perhaps most importantly — they don’t take themselves too seriously. In a world wrought with underground acts trying to out-cognify and ironify one another, the earnest, catchy and smart rock ‘n’ roll of Private Dancer is a faintly hotdog-tinged breath of fresh air.
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