Fantastic Voyage; Indie Sister Act Cocorosie Make Beguiling Music-and Tell Stories That May or May Not Be True.

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Noah's Ark--released, like La Maison de Mon Reve, on Touch and Go, which signed the sisters sight unseen after hearing a CD-R of La Maison--tells stories. There are the stories of naked lust on "Honey or Tar," of the pain of love on "Tekno Love Song," of growing up in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood on "South 2nd," of the emptiness that is the American dream on the gospelinspired "Armageddon."

"Wayne's World was a break-through with my sexuality," [Bianca] says. "We're moving to Aurora [Illinois, where Wayne's World takes place]." She sees my look of incredulity. "And we do what we say we're going to do. And make terrible heavy metal. We've just gotta get rid of Sierra's boyfriend. Boyfriends mess all of that up. The boyfriend doesn't fit in the picture."

I can't help but wonder what's real and what's manufactured. "We don't make fabulous tales up," Bianca says. But the image they've created to show the world never reveals too much, and raises more questions than it answers--such as when Sierra refuses to tell me how old she is. "That's the one question she doesn't want us to answer," Bianca says. (Other articles have put her at 24, Bianca at 22.)

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Fantastic Voyage; Indie Sister Act Cocorosie Make Beguiling Music-and Tell Stories That May or May Not Be True.

I'd been listening to CocoRosie's second album Noah's Ark (just released on Touch and Go) for a couple of weeks before meeting its creators, Bianca and Sierra Casady, in the backyard of a coffee shop on a sunny day in Williamsburg.

Based on the album--the follow-up to last year's La Maison de Mon Reve, reportedly recorded in the bathtub of Sierra's tiny ...

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