GROWWING PAINS - 17 Songs About The Same Girl LP

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GROWWING PAINS - 17 Songs About The Same Girl LP"This album's title is not a joke: Hamtramck, Michigan's GROWWING PAINS have written a debut album's worth of songs all about one special lady. (Though according to Urinal Cake head Eric Love, they initially wrote 22 songs about her.) Whoever she is, she's quite the musethis album is completely great. Growwing Pains' sunny melodies, use of keys, and powerful delivery recalls the manic joy of the Barbaras. There's something frantic and desperate about

experimental pop music full of fear and loneliness

The tales plod along in whispers

cello and keys and Joe Kelly (31 Knots) on drums

and unrequited love with startling honesty and humor

Stacking loops of gritty break beats

but not in its form but because now I had so many more stems or voices that could be played simultaneously compared to my earlier pieces

whose voices mesh sweetly & perfectly

Samples from contemporary artists like Nils Frahm are bent and compounded with fragments of early recorded music and medieval song

and downright dancers

While the playful rhythm machine on “The Man Whose Head Expanded” almost suggests danceability

occult electronics

The music has a very heavy low end