SEVEN NOISES

Vivian Girls have a new single out and either they read the reviews about their records or they actually are becoming, little by little, more influenced by old 50s / 60s girl bands, even more obviously than anything they've done before. In this single, out on their own record label Wild World Records, some of the punk fury fuzz they usually filter their songs with have disappeared and they even sound totally retro. The A side, My Love Will Follow Me could easily be a cover, although is not, and sounds familiar after a couple of listenings. The B side, a cover of the great Chantels song He's Gone, respects the original. You can get in here or in many specialised record shops.

The Vivian Girls are working really hard these days with their band constantly on tour, many releases and new parallel projects like the previously reviewed here The Babies and new project All Saints Day that will release their first single in some weeks and expect me to post about it in days.

Yellow Fever are the quintessential example of simple tunes and arrangements with magic results, the example that music has lots of possibilities with just a couple of notes and a slap on the face to the people that think everything is already done and you cannot create great tunes anymore. Yellow Fever are a duo from Austin, Jennifer Moore on guitar and Adam Jones on drums and Isabel Martin as a former member, that sound extremely fresh although they don't do anything new. They could have been releasing records for K Records if they had existed back in the 80s but they sound contemporary as well beside bands like The Sandwiches or Vivian Girls (who actually released their first proper album on their label Wild World, a compilation of songs previously released in various singles and EPs). And although they have this familiarity that makes you think you've heard this songs before, they also have kind of their own language because, although the songs may sound simple the first time around, if you pay attention you will realise they have many rhythm changes and a complexity not so evident the first time around that help them to sound fresh every time you play them.
And for the lyrics they are quite cryptic with lines like "why won't you recognise how psychedelic I am and love me" and most of the songs are titled under a name of a person.