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Artist: | Girl and Girl |
Title: | Girl and Girl Call A Doctor WHITE VINYL LP |
Released: | 24/05/2024 |
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Format: | WHITE VINYL LP |
Country | EU/US |
Barcode: | 98787160604 |
Catalogue number: | SP1606X |
SKU: | WLF21061 |
Condition: | BRAND NEW & SEALED |
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In one sense, it’s easy for artists - songwriters, specifically - to express their feelings in their work. After all, that’s what the lyrics are for! But it’s much harder to convey emotional energy in how you play, slash at the guitar, and the structure of the music itself. That’s precisely why Girl and Girl’s Sub Pop debut, ‘Call A Doctor’, feels like such a vital, electrifying shock to the senses.
Not since the early work of Car Seat Headrest or Conor Oberst’s widescreen emotional brutality as Bright Eyes has indie rock managed to come across as this intimate and grandiose, as the Australian quartet, led by Kai James, lay a lifetime’s worth of woes across a canvas of indie rock that feels both timeless and in-the-moment.
An audacious and aggressively tuneful blast of a record, Call A Doctor is an unforgettable first bow from Girl and Girl, whose origins lie in James and guitarist Jayden Williams jamming in his mother’s garage in the afternoon after school. One afternoon, James’s Aunty Liss headed down to their practice space after walking her dog and asked if she could sit in on drums. “It sounded really great,” James recalls. “We begged her to stay, and she said, ‘I’ll stay until you find another drummer.’ We wore her down, and she eventually became a permanent member.” After bassist Fraser Bell joined to round things out, Girl and Girl hit the road and began to make a name for themselves beyond the Australian bush, eventually signing to Sub Pop off the strength of word of mouth.
‘Call A Doctor’ came together quickly soon after, largely recorded in marathon sessions in a two-story industrial complex over the course of two weeks. “That added to the intensity of the album,” James says about the frenzied creative process overseen by producer Burke Reid. “I can hear the stress in the record, which is good because that’s what it’s about - being tense, tied up, and in your own head.”
‘Call A Doctor’s eleven songs - spanning sweeping guitar epics and wry acoustic shuffles to spiky punk manoeuvres and the type of raw, adoringly unvarnished indie-pop associated with legendary PacNW label K Records - are literally plucked from James’s personal history, as he reworked older recordings with newer lyrics
reflecting his past struggles as well as new anxieties that emerged prior to the album’s recording. “I’ve struggled with mental health for a lot of my life,” he explains, “and I went through a particularly difficult patch when we were making the album; the band had started to get some attention, and I felt an enormous amount of pressure to live up to it.”
“This record is about an individual who’s too far in their head, trying to get out,” James continues, while discussing ‘Call A Doctor’’s overall outlook - specifically the snapshot it offers of its creator. But even though this record deals with uneasy topics we all know well from within ourselves, it’s important to emphasize how teeming with life Girl and Girl’s music is. There’s a brazen, bold sense of humour to this stuff, an undeniable brightness to the darkness that makes it impossible not to be drawn in as a listener. Feeling down never sounded so goddamn good.
INTRO
Call A Doctor
Hello
Maple Jean and the
Anthropocene
Oh Boy!
Suffocate
Mother
You’ll Be Alright
Comfortable Friends
Our Love (Ours Only)
OUTRO
format | vinyl |
year of release | 2024 |
artist | Girl and Girl |
Recently In Stock | No |
Forthcoming | No |
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