Pitchfork

The Girls are five Seattle boys who aren't San Francisco's Girls. They're the Girls who are boys who like their new wave to be old-wave new wave, who like their old-wave new wave to be punk. The Girls carefully applied Cars synths like so much eyeliner over spiky Voidoids guitars on 2004's fine self-titled affair, and they're revving the Revlon up again on this song from follow-up Yes No Yes No Yes No. Yes, yes, "Transfer Station" may share its name with the buildings where garbage collectors deposit their garbage, but compared to many of the bands rummaging through similar dumpsters, it's reasonably hot garbage-- though it probably won't still smell as sweet as former Dirtnap labelmates Exploding Hearts (sigh, R.I.P.). "Paranormal overdrive," the Girls' frontguy Shannon Brown twitches, jumbling up my chronology by reminding me to ask where Syd Barrett lives (sigh, lived). But this isn't a history lesson, and it isn't a makeover, either. Reminder: You could be swinging on a Stellastarr*.

MP3:> The Girls: "Transfer Station"
[from Yes No Yes No Yes No; due 09/16/08 on Dirtnap]