Girls -"Vomit"

After last year's impressive 'Broken Dreams Club' EP, which included the Bitter FM summer hit "Heartbreaker," and showed some maturity in their songwriting.... what I didn't expect was what was to follow that EP. The first single "Vomit" from their forthcoming album 'Father, Son, Holy Ghost' is nearly seven minutes of psych-rock with some Pink Floyd touches and even some gospel backing. Epic would be an understatement.

Girls - "Heartbreaker"

'Girls' are a San Francisco band who made a big impact in 2009 with their debut album called 'Album'. The single "Lust For Life" still gets a lot of airplay on Bitter FM. The main members of 'Girls' are Christopher Owens and Chet "JR" White and the interesting thing about the singer Christopher Owens' musical career is how he seems so at home in this alternative side of the industry, considering his upbringing. His mother joined a cult called 'The Children of God' before he was born and he was brought up within that cult and obviously thought it was normal. They never heard any music from the outside world, although they performed christian songs themselves. It wasn't until he was in his early teens that some of the older cult kids, including his older sister, had secretly taped some songs from the radio.... the songs were nothing groundbreaking (Bon Jovi, Guns N Roses, Michael Jackson) but must have seemed it to them. This was the first wave of teenagers in the cult that started getting curious about the outside world and they started leaving the cult not long after. Interesting indeed, but time to get back to todays blog song.
"Heartbreaker" is a new song from their 'Broken Dreams Club' EP released late last year. It may be a song about heartbreak but musically it is really quite uplifting. Should've been the hit of the summer.