Girls are swinging for the fences on this next album, either their third (if you count Broken Dreams Club EP) or their sophomore release (if you don’t count BDC). In a lot of ways the new album Father, Son, Holy Ghost is the main course to the appetizer of the EP, in which the San Francisco-based band was able to hit on the production value they wished they could’ve hit with the adorable but occasionally rough-edged debut Album.
If you had never heard any Girls beyond the debut, you’d think these guys were moony, indie surf stoners. But the EP dispelled any illusion that Girls was just another reverb soaked buzz band. Echoes of folk and country suffused Broken Dreams Club and turned it into a paean to a rich Americana tradition.
Father, Son, Holy Ghost keeps building in the Americana direction while holding onto the jangly, reverbed guitar strumming that made their name — at least according to what we can glean from the epic "Vomit" released in advance of the album. The song begins as a quiet, arpeggio-pulling number; stumbles though a quasi-noise interlude; and finishes off with an enormous, soul-filled finish. It’s an ambitious song that has the emotional impact of "Hellhole Ratrace" combined with the compositional flair of the best of the EP.
A few bloggy boo birds have pooh-poohed the single based on god knows what — because they’re "overhyped"? Don’t take the bait. Lady Gaga is overhyped – if you think Girls is overhyped, you spend too much time sorting through email from PR people. Father,Son, Holy Ghost is shaping up to be a tremendous album that deserves recognition beyond the ghetto of indie music. Pre-order here & download "Vomit" here.
"Vomit"
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