Girls | ‘Lust for Life’ (NSFW)

I promise that once you hear this song, you’ll be singing it all day. That’s the definition of a good pop song. San Fran based Girls debut record “Album” is getting great attention from blogs like Pitchfork.

Musically, Album is mostly sunny Beach Boys pastiche, but it’s not the kajillionth indie attempt at orchestral Pet Sounds majesty. Rather, it’s simple and forthright early Beach Boys stuff: compact guitar-jangles, sha-la-la harmonies, muffled heartbeat drums. It sounds great. And even though it has a basic core sound, Album manages to cover a lot of aesthetic ground in its 44 minutes. Without being showy about it, they swing from rushing power-pop to acoustic campfire laments to “Morning Light”, which is one of the most fully realized slices of shoegaze revivalism I’ve heard in years.

Also, Girls frontman Christopher Owens’ life reads like a JT Leroy novel. In a sentence, Girls sounds like what being stoned, young, and restless feels like. Not that we would know.

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