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'Typical girls Volume 6'   

-  Label: 'Emotional Response Records/Bandcamp'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '28.10.22.'

Our Rating:
This is the latest instalment in Emotional Response Records Typical Girls compilation series, it contains 16 songs from 16 female fronted bands, from 7 countries around the world, 15 of whom I don't know anything about, so everything is taken on what I think of the music. This is every bit as great as Volume 5 the only previous edition I've reviewed.

The album opens with the best-known band on the compilation The Linda Linda's who Iggy Pop has been playing to death for quite a while now. There song Claudia Kishi is a tribute to character in the book series The Baby-Sitters Club, this is fun bouncy and very catchy indie punk.

No Mutuals by Fake Fruit doesn't appear to be railing against Mutual societies, but more if you have anything in common with someone trying to get to know you, with jangle pop guitars and dark and desperate vocals that have a bit of a Lene Lovich influence.

Next up is Wandering Thumb by Naked Roommate, that has a new wave Raincoats meets Holloys sensibility, as they ask all about what Ronaldo does with that Wandering Thumb, as they are American I guess this isn't about the footballer, it's engaging and a little unsettling as you wonder where that thumbs been.

Thin As Flags by Cindy apparently has drums by a certain Simon Phillips, the other one obviously, while being a slow tambourine led gentle caress of a song with subtle keyboards.

Nothing To Lose by Swab has super angry vocals shouting over a clattering riff and driven drumming that sounds like it ought to be on Kill Rock Stars as this Australian band sound every bit as desperate as the song title suggests.

Black Box by Selofan who come from Turkey, is dark goth, no wave menace, with a pulsing beat with trumpets, trombones with hints of Play Dead or Siouxie Sioux.

Falling Forwards by Sweeping Promises has a low-fi indie feel with nods to the Voodoo Queens and the Au Pairs as this American band stop start and jerk about a bit on a catchy song that may have the odd nod towards Wipers or Devo as it flies at you.

Abraxas by Wet Specimen who come from New Zealand are most definitely not a Specimen tribute act, but are a slow goth rock act with a singer with crystal clear vocals, telling us to wait to find out what happens in the future, before the guitars get properly nasty, as the rhythm section stays totally solid as we wait for that avenging angel, I needed to rewind the selector to hear the mangled guitars again.

Music Box by Glass Beads from Ukraine is slow dark goth majesty, with sparing drums, as they explore their feelings as they wait for the Music Box to start playing again, here's hoping the Ukraine has lots of music to listen too next year, rather than the sounds of war. This is haunting and wonderful.

Lola by Lande Heckt is a good slice of British indie pop that reminds me of Suggested Friends or Marine Girls as this dark tale of forbidden love unfolds.

Critter by Body Double from the USA is slow ponderous a song with some odd piano that comes In and out of the central riff and the vocals go deep in their distain for the human Critter they are singing about.

Prison Strike by Provoke is railing against white supremacy with some hard-core punk noise with a vocalist who reminds me of Amyl from the Sniffers. This is rip roaring and needs to be heard at punishing volume.

Old Man, Young Woman by Persona is a troubling subject, as where do you draw that line, I speak as someone whose Girlfriend of the last 24 years is 10 years younger than me, a gap far more noticeable when we were 33 and 23 years old than now we are 57 and 47. This has sweet sounding vocals with gentle yet fraught music helping to ask the tough questions as to what's going on.

Luu Kurkkun by Luu Kurkkun from Finland, almost sounds a bit like a female fronted Pelle Miljoona this is speedy Finnish punk.

Sundown by Squid Ink from the USA has a bit of a Riot Grrl feel almost like they are updating Tribe 8 but with a PJ Harvey Influence lyrically as this song about being othered and shunned and treated abysmally unfolds.

The album closes with Landscape Shift by Optic Nerve who really ought to be signed to Optic Nerve Recordings, this is electro pop from the USA, that sounds A bit like Landscape meets Telex, with super deadpan vocals as they look at how the world has changed in the last few years with some good sci-fi sound effects.

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  author: simonovitch

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