“When it was released stateside in 2002, Division of Laura Lee's caustic debut album, 2001's *Black City*, sounded anonymous next to other much-hyped Swedish groups: The band lacked the idealistically retro politics of The (International) Noise Conspiracy, the delinquent nostalgia of The Raveonettes, the hippie-hobbitness of Soundtrack of Our Lives, and The Hives' ambitions for global domination-- ”
