Mothers, start putting that lock on your medicine cabinets.
Father, Son, Holy Ghost is the second album from San Francisco duo Girls. Prior to this release they had gone from being in a cult to having a cult following of their own. Big names likes NME, Spin, and Pitchfork had been speaking so greatly of this album, and their first single "Vomit" is a pretty incredible song so I committed the rookie mistake of going at it with great expectations. The album isn't the ground breaker that I was hoping for but it has more than enough strong points to make it listening worthy. Like their prior work, the content is very prescription drug induced, and like with prescription drugs some things you feel but some you just don't.
3 Songs Worth Listening:
- "Die" - The heaviest song in the album. Shakes you out of the mellow streak posed by the album's first 2 songs with it's explosion of drums and electric guitar led melody. It goes up and comes down beautifully.
- "Vomit" - You'll automatically think Pink Floyd's "Great Gig in the Sky" but with a more melancholy aura.
- "Forgiveness" - Perhaps the opposite of "Die" It builds slowly and winds around in circles until it explodes into a melodic and culminating moving guitar solo that releases all tension that was earlier harnessed.
This album makes me want to: go on a daze for hours on end.
Other albums you would like:
- Smith Westerns - Dye it Blonde
- Cults - Cults
- Yuck - Yuck
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By S. Torres
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