ARTiST : Some Girls
ALBUM : Crushing Love
LABEL : Koch Records
GENRE : Indie
RELEASE : 2006-07-11
STREET : 2006-07-11
ENCODER : LAME 3.90
QUALiTY : 201kbps avg / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
SiZE : 75 MB
PLAYTiME : 00:49:32
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[#] [Track Name] [Time]
1. Is This What I've Been Waiting For? 3:53
2. Poor Man's You 2:52
3. Partner In Crime 3:44
4. Hooray For L.A. 4:04
5. Social Control 3:04
6. On My Own Again 4:31
7. Stars In My Dreams 2:08
8. Rock Or Pop? 2:48
9. Live Alone 4:16
10. Just Like That 2:34
11. He's On Drugs Again 5:39
12. Never Really Mine 3:39
13. Kill The Bottle 3:26
14. Magnetic Fields 2:54
49:32
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"When Some Girls started, we had no long-range plans," says Juliana Hatfield.
"But the first album and tour went so well that we were excited about doing it
again. This time it felt more like a band and less like a scary experiment."
Crushing Love is the second album by Some Girls, the iconoclastic trio
consisting of singer, guitarist and esteemed solo artist Hatfield plus drummer
Freda Love, previously Hatfield's bandmate in seminal indie combo the Blake
Babies and now a member of the Mysteries of Life, and
bassist/multi-instrumentalist Heidi Gluck, formerly of the Pieces and currently
of the Only Children. The 14-track collection expands the provocative,
hook-laden songcraft of its 2003 predecessor Feel It into compelling new
directions, while maintaining the same balance of electric energy, melodic craft
and emotional nuance that made the prior disc so resonant.
With Hatfield, Love and Gluck sharing vocal and songwriting duties, the songs
boast subtly irresistible hooks and pointedly punchy performances, as well as
deceptively plainspoken lyrics that navigate thorny personal territory with
unflinching truthfulness and barbed humor.
Those qualities are prominent on such Hatfield-written numbers as "Poor Man's
You," "Social Control" and "Stars in My Dreams." Love's equally noteworthy
compositions, including "Partner In Crime," "Is This What I've Been Waiting
For?" and "Never Really Mine," are disarmingly forthright, with the drummer
stepping up to the mic to deliver a rare lead vocal on the latter tune. Gluck
also weighs in with a pair of melodically lilting, lyrically bittersweet gems,
"On My Own Again" and "Live Alone."
"This record was a lot more collaborative than the first one, and it definitely
felt more like a cohesive band this time," says Love. "Juliana and I have so
much history together that the way we work together is almost second-nature, and
the added element of a new person makes it feel fresh. Heidi's involvement on
this record was really significant, and her skills as a multi-instrumentalist
added a lot."
"Some Girls is a really open, creative atmosphere, and it feels totally
different from what I do in my solo thing," Hatfield asserts. "In my head, Some
Girls is an outlet for certain songs that I feel like I can't do justice to
without Freda. Her drumming is so effervescent and groovy that some songs seem
to call out for it. And Heidi is such a great musician and singer that she kind
of makes it all jell."
The trio recorded Crushing Love under relatively rushed, chaotic circumstances,
a situation that brought out the best in the threesome's creative chemistry. "It
ended up being liberating for us, because we didn't have time to fuss over it,"
Love observes. "Once it started rolling, things really started pouring out of
us, and those circumstances seemed to foster creativity and risk-taking. We
didn't rehearse or make demos; we just showed up and started making the record.
We sort of made it up as we went along, which turned out to be a great way to
make a record."
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