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Byline: ALUN PALMER Lead singer Lovefoxxx says she is embarrassed by some of the smut on the band's first album, Cansei De Ser Sexy.

Byline: DAVID SMYTH CSS lived up to their colourful Brazilian heritage on their 2006 album Cansei De Ser Sexy, a riot of disco-punk sauciness that was the soundtrack to a neverending party led by jumpsuited singer Lovefoxxx.

CSS: Donkey (Sub Pop) FROM singer Lovefoxxx's catsuits to their catchy dance-rock tunes, Cansei De Ser Sexy were a breath of fresh air in 2006.

Cansei de Ser Sexy (literally "tired of being sexy" in Portuguese, named themselves after a modest Beyonce quote in a magazine) seem a little perplexed by all the attention they are receiving in this country "Everywhere we go people say I'm so naughty with my lyrics," says Lovefoxxx (real name Luisa Hanae Matsushita), the group's cheekily-named half-Japanese lead singer.

From the shift in the independent music underground epitomized by Paris Hilton dancing onstage at Coachella with Cansei De Ser Sexy, a Brazilian band signed to Nirvana's former label Sub Pop, and by a mainstream transfixed by the voting process on "American Idol," we care who wins.

Cansei de Ser Sexy (as they initially were until they gave in to the English-speaking world's lack of enthusiasm for other tongues) have already grasped a basic fact about how to win over UK audiences.

CSS Astoria, WC2 Brazilian electropop livewires whose fabulous debut album Cansei De Ser Sexy is being reissued at the start of next month and given a major marketing push in a bid to convince even more people of its brilliance.

CSS Cansei de Ser Sexy ***** RE-ISSUE of this breathtaking mix of funk, punk and dance.