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The second LP from the holy trinity of TOBI VAIL (Bikini Kill, Frumpies), LAYLA GIBBON (Skinned Teen) and MARISSA MAGIC (Stillsuit, Mozart, Neon). Like Flipper playing Y-Pants songs! Or Vice-Versa! The new sound of the international girl gang underground.
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Note: Some copies of this record arrived to our store with slight corner dings so be advised
Our take: You might remember riot grrrl supergroup Girlsperm from their killer 2017 full-length. Now they’re back with another one on the same label, Thrilling Living, and fans of that record will be pleased to hear that not much has changed. Girlsperm’s sound is steeped in the 90s riot grrrl sound of bands like Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, and Huggy Bear, and if you’re a fan of those bands, it’s difficult to imagine you wouldn’t love Girlsperm too. Just like the original riot grrl bands in the 90s, so much about their music feels like a fresh counterpoint to what pretty much every other band out there is doing. Where so many other bands strive for tightness, Girlsperm is loose and improvisational. Where other bands are theatrical and extroverted or navel-gazing and introverted, Girlsperm sounds like an intimate gathering of close friends. As a middle-aged white man it’s hard for me to articulate, but when I listen to Girlsperm, it feels just like listening to the Raincoats or Kleenex, like it shines a light in a part of the room that I’d ignored because it was cloaked in shadow. But even though Girlsperm challenges punk orthodoxy, they still sound punk as fuck. The songs are still short and exciting and angular and energetic and all the things I want punk to be. As Girlsperm blasts through these 16 tracks, they make it sound so easy and so natural. You’d think there would be a thousand bands out there just like them.
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Note: Some copies of this record arrived to our store with slight corner dings so be advised
Our take: You might remember riot grrrl supergroup Girlsperm from their killer 2017 full-length. Now they’re back with another one on the same label, Thrilling Living, and fans of that record will be pleased to hear that not much has changed. Girlsperm’s sound is steeped in the 90s riot grrrl sound of bands like Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, and Huggy Bear, and if you’re a fan of those bands, it’s difficult to imagine you wouldn’t love Girlsperm too. Just like the original riot grrl bands in the 90s, so much about their music feels like a fresh counterpoint to what pretty much every other band out there is doing. Where so many other bands strive for tightness, Girlsperm is loose and improvisational. Where other bands are theatrical and extroverted or navel-gazing and introverted, Girlsperm sounds like an intimate gathering of close friends. As a middle-aged white man it’s hard for me to articulate, but when I listen to Girlsperm, it feels just like listening to the Raincoats or Kleenex, like it shines a light in a part of the room that I’d ignored because it was cloaked in shadow. But even though Girlsperm challenges punk orthodoxy, they still sound punk as fuck. The songs are still short and exciting and angular and energetic and all the things I want punk to be. As Girlsperm blasts through these 16 tracks, they make it sound so easy and so natural. You’d think there would be a thousand bands out there just like them.