{"id":5820,"date":"2011-08-08T19:24:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T19:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=5820"},"modified":"2011-08-09T19:34:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T19:34:22","slug":"girls-new-video-drivin-and-cryin-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-08\/girls-new-video-drivin-and-cryin-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls’ New Video–Drivin’ and Cryin’ in The City"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of our musical faves, San Francisco band Girls<\/strong>, has just released the first video (of the song Vomit) <\/strong><\/em>from their impending new album, “Father, Son, Holy Ghost.” <\/strong>The song itself is a grand kitchen sink of influences with both fuzzy psychedelic and Neil Young-esque guitar, acoustic balladry, Spector-Wall-of-Sound, and a soul-gospel diva ending.\u00a0 After the third listen, we were hooked.\u00a0 The video features a ’65 Mustang cruising the streets of San Francisco (including a night-time drag down an empty Chinatown street, the Stockton Tunnel, etc.) and depicting the singer “looking ’round for [his] baby.”\u00a0 The lyrics aren’t profound, but combined with the music the song and video did not make us vomit (homage to Chris Mundell’s stellar movie reviews<\/a>)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The band’s promo says this about the new album:<\/p>\n

“Father, Son, Holy Ghost<\/strong> juxtaposes the pain and beauty, hope and misery, which lie at the heart of gospel music<\/strong>.\u00a0 According to Owens, \u201cthe title does come from a religious place, but it\u2019s more about acknowledging the fact that music does have a spiritual quality you can\u2019t put your finger on.\u201d The 3-piece gospel choir that accompanies the band on seven of Father, Son, Holy Ghost\u2019s 11 tracks echoes that sentiment.\u00a0 \u201cSome of the earliest songs we learn are happy and joyous, which is why we sing when we are sad, in a sort of effort to get back to that place of happiness…\u201d says Owens. Christopher\u2019s earliest experiences with music were playing religious songs in the street; here, he elevates his songs to a sacred place — not church but the rock\u2019n\u2019roll songbook, assembled with the toolkit (paper, pen, guitar) of a true believer.”<\/p>\n

Some have said that Vomit <\/strong><\/em>was divined in part from Proverbs 26:11: “As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness<\/strong>.”\u00a0 Whatever the case, we like it.<\/p>\n