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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Often, a lot does go wrong with the notoriously difficult second album. Wild Beasts bucked the trend this year by improving on their own theatrical template, The Horrors similarly dug even deeper into pastiche to produce spectacular results. NYC's Vivian Girls have done neither of these things and have seemingly instead released the second half of their blink-and-you'll-miss-it, 21-minute debut.
There is little wrong with the if-it-ain't-broke approach, particularly when your echo-y harmonies and hazy, reverb-filled garage-noise are so in vogue. This said, it would be equally fair to say that if Vivian Girls' three chords, surf-rock riffs and fuzzy, girl-group homage to C86 didn't grab you on the eponymous debut, they are unlikely to do so now. As an aside, Raveonettes fans disillusioned at the band's shiny evolution away from `Attack of the Ghost Riders' may find a welcome home here.
Everything Goes Wrong sadly does not house a knockout tune akin to `Where Do You Run?' in its jangly 36 minutes, and true, it is guilty of being `samey', as naysayers are quick to point out. However, this marginally better-produced outing deserves to sit alongside Manhattan Love Suicides and Crystal Stilts as a worthy moment of lo-fi nostalgia.
There is little wrong with the if-it-ain't-broke approach, particularly when your echo-y harmonies and hazy, reverb-filled garage-noise are so in vogue. This said, it would be equally fair to say that if Vivian Girls' three chords, surf-rock riffs and fuzzy, girl-group homage to C86 didn't grab you on the eponymous debut, they are unlikely to do so now. As an aside, Raveonettes fans disillusioned at the band's shiny evolution away from `Attack of the Ghost Riders' may find a welcome home here.
Everything Goes Wrong sadly does not house a knockout tune akin to `Where Do You Run?' in its jangly 36 minutes, and true, it is guilty of being `samey', as naysayers are quick to point out. However, this marginally better-produced outing deserves to sit alongside Manhattan Love Suicides and Crystal Stilts as a worthy moment of lo-fi nostalgia.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Love 'em or hate 'em, Vivian Girls are not here to waste your time. Like their delinquent punk and 60s girl-group forebears, they know that two minutes is quite enough time in which to blast out a song when necessary (four of these 13 songs clock in around or below the two minute mark; only one stretches more than four minutes). This, their second album, packs a lot of frenetic drumming, guitar playing and harmonizing into its 36-minute running time. Try it you might like it. And it won't take you long to find out.
Standout tracks: Walking Alone at Night, I Have No Fun, Tension, I'm Not Asleep
Standout tracks: Walking Alone at Night, I Have No Fun, Tension, I'm Not Asleep
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is better than their previous offering and I was really hoping to like it but I bought the Dum Dum Girls and Best Coast around the same time and both are just way better in my opinion.
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