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Artist...... Hard Girls
Album....... Floating Now
Label....... Specialist Subject
Genre....... Punk
Releasedate 2017-10-06
Encoder..... LAME 3.97
Bitrate..... 320kbps
Size........ 103.15 mb
Duration.... 42:09
WWW......... http://play.google.com
.Tracklist .................................................................
01 Field '99 [ 3:08]
02 Puddle of Blood [ 2:13]
03 Codeine Dreams [ 3:00]
04 Camera [ 3:46]
05 Echolocation [ 4:04]
06 Halfway to the Hearse [ 3:58]
07 Gaudalupe on the Banks of the Styx [ 3:56]
08 Neurons on the Fritz [ 3:16]
09 Herd [ 3:40]
10 Dulcet Tones [ 2:45]
11 Dizzy Wizard [ 3:35]
12 Running [ 4:48]
.Releasenotes ..............................................................
Hard Girls (whose name is a reverential nod to the Soft Boys, an early
influence on the band) spent several years on the road touring with Say
Anything, Modern Baseball, AJJ, and Cymbals Eat Guitars among others before
returning to the Atomic Garden studio to record Floating Now with engineer
Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Joyce Manor). Their new record doubles down on the
bold, introspective post-punk that has become the band's calling card, while
channeling a weird, insistent melodicism not unlike 90's giants Lou Barlow
and Robert Pollard.
Alternating vocal duties, guitarist Mike Huguenor's lyrics are poetic and
furious, while bassist Morgan Herrell favors a Bradbury-like style of folksy
storytelling, but both cohesively explore themes of mortality, doubt, and the
struggle to confront these fears. While the trio's hometown of San Jose, CA
is poised to be the site of a sprawling new Google campus, it is already the
poster child for the alienating class-divide of the new tech economy,
embodied by soaring real estate prices and sweeping homelessness. In an
interview with the AV Club, Huguenor explained that "'Guadalupe On The Banks
Of The Styx' is a song about a place that was once beautifulùwhere anyone
could find peace for just the cost of crossing the riverùbut has, in our
lifetime, become a place of lost and wandering souls." On album closer
"Running" Herrell asks in heartbreaking fashion, possibly to an average,
struggling San Jose resident, or possibly to the area's tech overlords,
"Every day of your life you try to prove it was worth it all to them. Was it
worth it? I donÆt know, ask me again."
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