We Care

These wacky Swedes fare best when they downplay their weirdness and just rock hard. Whale’s dumb insults (”She smells like Kurt Loder!”) and pornographic come-ons can be fun, and they’re capable of stretching a couple of tunes into tasty jazz treats. But We Care‘s ballads are boring and their thin vocals can get lost amid the gracelessly stunted art-funk mess. B