Post
INFO
Booking, press, releases, everything: eMail us
Look Mom We’re Famous
“Many kids of my generation pine for a time they never actually knew — a golden era of music — but I feel the opposite way. Because of all the great work our parents and their parents crafted in their youth, we have an endless library to sort through and learn from. We’re able to mine bits from all sorts of styles from all different years and make something new. Girlfriends, a garage-rock trio from the suburbs of Boston, gets that — and gets down on it, too. The group offers eight tracks for your streaming pleasure on its website. Throughout, vocals ooze Marc Bolan-esque hedonism, picking up speed like lonesome drivers pursuing foxy hitchhikers. The guitars rage loud and fuzzy, carried on by frenzied drumming. The sound swims into arcs, punctuated with hoots and yelps. It’s far from bedroom music — this stuff sounds as if it was made in an oil-stained, beer-can-littered garage. Live, I’m certain the trio positively slays. “ - Beca Grimm, NPR
“Boston garage-punks Girlfriends deliver something that’s been sorely lacking from most garage-punk in recent years: indignation directed at a target who isn’t an ex-lover or a shitty friend. But for all its straightforward snottiness and instantly gratifying surf-guitar hooks, the A-side turns a clever trick…It’s a catchy little piss-take, and the band brings plenty others like it…” - A/V Club, The Onion
“A highly pleasant, bubblegum flavoured, lo-fi bedroom pop trio from Boston. Their delivery has a nice snotty edge, almost like some weird garage group on K Hep.” - Byron Coley, Wire Magazine
“Kicking off with a riff worthy of BILLY CHILDISH himself, GIRLFRIENDS comes out of the garage revving, but stutter to a crawl two-thirds of the way through the first song. Must have filled up with kangaroo petrol. From then on, the song gets a bit moody in what sounds like a misguided attempt to ooze sex appeal, until finally reaching a loud and abrupt climax. The flipside plods along repetitively like mid-period FALL. Entertaining stuff. (AM) (Aurora Seven) -Maximum Rock n Roll
