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| | Album | | | Music Artist : | | Girls | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | True Panther Sounds | | Release Date : | | 2009-09-22 | | Store Price : | | $14.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Lust For Life
2. Laura
3. Ghostmouth
4. Goddamn
5. Big Bad Mean Motherfucker
6. Hellhole Ratrace
7. Headache
8. Summertime
9. Lauren Marie
10. Morning Light
11. Curls
12. Darling
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 speaks of post-modern issues
Submitted on: 2009-11-08 |
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'Reach out and touch me / I'm right here' sings openly-sexual Christopher Owens in "Laura". In 1985 the best means we had to "reach out and touch someone" was the telephone. For all the advances in communications since then - cellular phones, the internet, instant messaging, email, chat rooms, social networking sites - we now feel more isolated.
This is a call to every teen left in this decade to just 'Reach out and touch someone', something we're in very desperate need of.
The very name of the band. Which made me think it was gonna be a group of, well, girls; had me surprised when it wasn't. And that's part of the game they're playing here, a gender confusion so particular of the second half of the past century, a time mostly called contemportary -or post-modernist.
On another note, the singer is not even trying to sound good. It's like they're saying: That's it, take it or leave it. Yes, we're a sexually ambiguous group. And we don't care if you mind.
Well, take it or leave it. |
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Excellent debut album
Submitted on: 2009-11-06 |
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Indie-band Girls, consisting of 2 guys now based in San Francisco, has pretty much come out of nowhere (for me anyway) with this album, their debut. Musically they are hard to pinpoint but think of it as their verson of California sunshine pop with a twist--or two (acoustic Beck meets the Beach Boys).
"Album" (12 tracks; 44 min.) starts off with a teasingly short but brilliant "Lust For Life" (no, not a cover of the Iggy Pop tune), followed by a luscious ode to "Laura" and a dreamy "Ghost Mouth", wow, what a way to start off the album. "Hellhole Ratrace", which concludes the first half the album, is the most revelatory track on the album: a 7 min. epic, acoustic tune, sad but beautiful. Wow, I rate the first half of the album 4.5 stars. The second half kicks off with the promising "Headache", which is followed by the last true highlight of the album, "Summertime" (and the title of the song says it all). "Lauren Marie" brings a wall of underlying guitar-reverb to a gentle tune, quite good. But towards the end the album starts to falter a bit and loses direction. I rate the second half of the album 3.5 stars.
In all, "Album" is an excellent debut, and I can't wait to hear more from these guys. Meanwhile, I hope to catch them in concert sometime (are you reading this, Coachella organizers?). Finally, if you wonder where you can hear these guys, check out WOXY (BAM! The Future of Rock and Roll), the internet-only station that brings the best indie-music in the country, bar none (and where I found out about Girls). |
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 Best album of '09
Submitted on: 2009-10-19 |
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I heard about this band on Pitchfork a few weeks ago. The site was heaping buckets of praise on the young band's debut album, (the appropriately and simply titled 'Album'), and, even though I don't usually agree with PF's 'glowing' reviews, they're always worth -at least- checking out. Now, I'll be the first to admit that upon hearing the first 30 seconds or so of 'Lust For Life', I was a tad put-off by singer/songwriter Christopher Owens' nasally delivery, to the point of stopping the song and saying "That's that!" in regards to Girls. It wasn't until a good friend of mine, with an uncanny ear for great music called me last week to ask if i'd heard this band, which he'd been listening too, non-stop for weeks. My friend then preceded to embark on this half hour, suplerfluous-filled rant, which inevitably persuaded me to go back and give Girls another chance. Boy am I glad I did! If I'd just listened to a little more of 'Lust For Life' I would've realized that Owens so-called 'nasally delivery' was the perfect tongue-in-cheek sarcasm needed to give the bittersweet little lament of a track it's "OOMPH!". In fact, it's pretty much this formula for the entire album: take a rather somber subject matter, add an upbeat, indomitable delivery, and you have Girls. That may sound a bit repetetive, but I neglected to mention Owens' gifted vocal range. His voice can inflect hints of Elvis Costello, Morrisey, and even early-Beatles era John Lennon, (just take a gander at the no-fi gem 'God Damned' if you don't believe me). Nor have I mentioned JR White's skills as a producer/arranger. Each song on the album has it's own unique sound, almost as if it were produced by multiple people. It's that combined skill that keeps 'Album' sounding fresh track-after-track. I would usually take time to point out key tracks, but this album is loaded with them. My only qualm is the last song, "Darling". While not a bad song, I kinda expected an album of this magnitude to go out on a stronger note. Though, when almost every song before it an IMMEDIATE CLASSIC, it's hard to hold that against them, right? So, to make a long story short: Girls' "Album" is the BEST ALBUM of 2009. It's an album that you will always come back to. It's an album you can listen to when you're sad or happy; it's an album you can listen to while huddled around a fire with people you love, or driving to work on a rainy Monday morning. It's an album that will love you for who you are. Thanks Girls.
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Great indie-pop!
Submitted on: 2009-10-06 |
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| I can't believe there aren't more reviews for this. "Album" is enjoyable from beginning to end and the order of the songs lend themselves to the continuity of the disc. Every person will hear different influences here.. I hear Jesus & Mary Chain, 50's rock n' roll, 60's sunshine pop, 70's mellow rock, shoegaze, and current indie rock. The group never sounds like they are trying to sound a certain way... it just seems to flow naturally. I agree with E. Mcmenamin's review in that this COULD have been the summer album of the year if only it wasn't released in September. |
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Very good
Submitted on: 2009-09-24 |
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| "Album" is instantly catchy jangle-psychedelia. Reverb and tremolo drenched guitars, wavery downtrodden lyrics and a mix of both up-tempo and down-tempo tracks -- it would have been the perfect summer record on both sunny and rainy days. |
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