Girls – Broken Dreams Club
Here are my notes on each track from the new EP by the American band, Girls.
With a cruise blues samba with stabs of gooey goodness this EP gets off to a good start.
Heartbreaker is built on acoustic guitar, fairground music and sunny harmonies via those used to be b boys. Nice fade into sunset guitar break as well.
Title track, pedal steel, weird tuning, megaphone, rock rodeo. Lasso you some. “I just want to get high but everyone keeps bringing me down.”
Alright rain sizzles off steaming bitumen. It’s wet outside but warm in here. Nice jazz tones bubble up to almost a boil.
What kind of Substance forms when you combine garage trash guitar, a bleak message and just the right amount of pop swagger.
Carolina drifts across the high plains leaving behind swirling vortices of jangly juiciness. RK www.myspace.com/girls
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