It's hard not to detect a certain self-assurance in CSS's choice of name for their second album. The Brazilian quintet (they've shed a member since their debut) apparently settled on Donkey after ...

Until two years ago, the idea of a (nearly) all-girl group from Brazil becoming famous for making hip electro-pop, rather than "world music", would have been unusual. São Paulo's CSS have shattered ...

What a strange and crazy life São Paulo natives CSS have led these past three years. The mixed-gender band’s name stands for Cansei De Ser Sexy, Portuguese for ‘tired of being sexy’ (as Beyoncé ...

FOLLOWING on from their summer sleeper hit of 2007, Cansei De Ser Sexy – tired of being sexy, indeed – the Brazilian five-piece return with Donkey. The irreverent vocals, spiky-but-nice guitars and ...

CSS have explained the meaning behind the title of their new album ‘Donkey’. The group revealed that the name of their second record refers to themselves and how they were forced to tour by their old ...

This could be a useful trend: bands giving an honest appraisal of their latest efforts in the album title. The world would be a simpler and better place if records were called things such as Two Good ...

After every great knees-up comes a nasty hangover - and the come-down has been especially messy for Brazilian party animals CSS. After touring their debut album, Cansei De Ser Sexy, for more than a ...

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Brazil’s CSS wasn’t going to win the great sophomore-album battle, no matter what most of the folks out there dragging Donkey through the mud will tell you.

As statements of purpose go, "We didn't come into the world to walk around / We came here to take you out" isn't especially rousing. It's a little wan, a bit quaint, and not very effectual. That's a ...

First impressions… CSS’s first album, the electro-rock extravaganza Cansei De Ser Sexy, made a big splash back in 2006, so lots is expected of Donkey. And while this is more downbeat than their debut ...

CSS's 2006 debut magically managed to capture the deliriously ramshackle atmosphere of the Sao Paolo arty-party scene they emerged from. Two years of constant touring, countless festivals, a loss of a ...