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Review: 'Girls At Our Best'
'Getting Nowhere Fast'   

-  Label: 'Optic Nerve Recordings'
-  Genre: 'Eighties' -  Release Date: '18.6.21.'-  Catalogue No: 'ON 311'

Our Rating:
This is a re-issue of Girls At Our Best's debut single and as you'd expect of a band with this name that 3 of the 4 girls are actually boys, no Mansplaining required honest. This originally came out in 1980 and is a key slice of Yorkshire post punk as they come from the ever-fertile Leeds scene.

The A-side Getting Nowhere Fast has a great indie pop feel as Judy Evans vocals tell us about a bloke whose offering her a new life Getting Nowhere Fast as he throws her another line, that could have come off a dole office poster back then as the jangly yet obviously influenced by The Sex Pistols guitar carries on insistently throughout.

The B-side which was actually the song that got all the attention back in the early 80's it is the still brilliant Warm Girls that has a goth jangle core sound and all sorts of other elements going on as all sorts of odd things happen in the lyrics about loving mental children, losing you appetite for your wife, and things that only happen in your head before they repeat the band's name over and over and the bass line just carries on. It's really great to hear this again after way too long.

Find out more at https://opticnerverecordings.com/products/girls-at-our-best-getting-nowhere-fast-7?_pos=1&_sid=7b40efe16&_ss=r&variant=31990058778735 https://www.facebook.com/Girls-at-our-best-115685208529180

  author: simonovitch

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