Girl Friday

the debut lp from this los angeles quartet is a fab blend of enticingly melodic singing billowing over the debris of scuzzy post-punk noisecraft.

With bold, dramatic guitar lines and tightly wound vocal harmonies, Girl Friday negotiate the stress and alienation of being sidelined by society. "Does the average man feel like he's on the outside?" goes the beginning of "Public Bodies," a wistful jangle-pop gem that shudders open into a snarling punk coda. Taking cues from boundary-pushers Sonic Youth, Girl Friday favour the rush of jarring turns over the safety of well-defined pop taxonomy. Fans of savages, sonic youth and sleater-kinney should stick their oars firmly into this album. “What really marks the group out is their refusal to pigeon-hole themselves, generically, with this LP displaying flashes of surf-rock, garage, post-punk, goth, art-rock and pop-punk” - get in her ears.