Sweet Baboo new album on Video
This is a video for Tim’s Song, taken from Sweet Baboo’s new album, Hello Wave…
See Sweet Baboo’s new album, Hello Wave, in video here.
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GIRLS – ‘ALBUM’
Girls reveal their debut album – entitled ‘Album’ – will be released on 21st September through Fantasytrashcan / Turnstile Music.
The album was produced by Chet JR White, and recorded in a various San Francisco bedrooms since the band’s formation at the start of 2008.
The tracklisting reads:
01. Lust For Life
02. Laura
03. Ghost Mouth
04. God Damned
05. Big Bad Mean Mother Fucker
06. Hellhole Ratrace
07. Headache
08. Summertime
09. Lauren Marie
10. Morning Light
11. Curls
12. Darling
GIRLS video for Hellhole Ratrace
You can watch this in Hi Res on our TV page.
Hellhole Ratrace B-side “Solitude”
Live at The Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco. June 6th 2009
Here’s a nice little clip of Girls performing “Solitude”, the B-side to forthcoming debut UK single “Hellhole Ratrace” last week at The Hemlock Tavern, in San Francisco. Special mention goes to one particularly adoring member of the crowd responisble for the vintage but timeless “Take off your shirt!!!” heckle.
Girls cover Cass McCombs
Check out this cover of Girls at The Hemlock, back in their hometown SF last night, playing the gorgeous backyard blues ballad “My Dream Come True Girl” by the brilliant and inimitable Cass McCombs, taken from his new LP entitled Catacombs, out now on Domino.
Video Nasties, On All Fours Tour Film
A film made by the band using a video camera the size of a mobile phone. May 2009, tracks are: Teenage celebration, old flowers and hnb.
Elvis Costello on GIRLS’ Hellhole Ratrace
Jukebox Jury with Elvis Costello, includes wise words on GIRLS’ forthcoming single Hellhole Ratrace, see below and here for more.
Who is this?
This is a band from San Francisco called Girls.
I thought this was Jarvis Cocker at first! The changes are kind of arcane, aren’t they? It’s got that minor in there so that it sounds like 50s music. That’s a change Orbison used a lot, but you don’t hear it very much anymore. Jarvis used it in “Common People,” too. The clave… When it first started, I thought, “Oh this is something like Phil Spector,” but it doesn’t ever open up the way his songs do. I like the sound of this, it’s intriguing. Also the proportions of songs are really interesting. At the first moment, you went, “Oh, it’s a record from the 60s, it could be a Doc Pomus recording.” But then when the vocalist didn’t come in, I knew it was a modern recording, because in the ’60s they would have come in after 4 bars – 8 bars at the most. That’s good, though, because it doesn’t do what you expect. I liked it.
For point of reference, the song is about 8 minutes long.
Does it go somewhere else?
It sort of steadily builds.
Ah, like Spiritualized? That was my other guess. Or… what’s that other group with the guy with the beard and the blood? The Flaming Lips.
It’s exciting for me to hear new bands – you can hear a young band and think, “That’s really strange, the harmonies they’re using there are like the harmonies from a George Harrison record. Why would they like that? They’re 18!” But they’ve heard it because it’s all part of the mix of things. But, as with the Girls song, it starts out where you might expect but then goes somewhere completely different because they’re listening to a much broader range of music because it’s available to them.
