New Wave of Lo-Fi Girls
 

What do you think of all those bands/artists? You know, U.S. Girls, Circuit Des Yeux, Zola Jesus etc.

Dishes haven't been washed in a while.

I like all those 3 a lot, especially Zola Jesus who I think is really something special, I ordered that XXperiments comp yesterday, and the 2nd Zola Jesus single. Caldera Lakes are really good too, although they are more on the noise side of things.

Do any of them have tramp stamps?

can they cook, hoover and wash my dirty underwear?

^^ o!

I think they have syphillis scars instead.

edit - wait, how did i get on this thread? i thought this was the G&r thread, so sorry.

I have the U.S. Girls CD-R that Chocolate Monk put out. I've only listened a couple times but it wasn't as good as I was expecting based on the description. Should probably listen to it again. I hear the LP is meant to be very good.
Have not heard of those other two bands. Will investigate.

I've heard something by Caldera Lakes a while ago, but can't recall what they sounded like. U.S. Girls and Circuit Des Yeux for the win. I have the 'Poor Sons' 7'' by Zola Jesus which is good, especially the title track and 'The Way'. I'm not so sure about the song 'Dog' which kind of reminds me of a badly recorded female Coldplay, for some reason.

I think that I might prefer Circuit Des Yeux to the other two, now. I mean, 'Symphone' is such a fucking WEIRD record.

Not sure if she quite fits here (I've not heard any of the bands so far mentioned) but Miss Alex White has been a fairly constant presence in my CD player of late.

i prefer circuit des yeux live, but us girls on record.

ive been hearing about circuit des yeux quite a bit. ive heard theyre similar to us girls, but even wierder. the us girls siltbreeze lp on the other hand, is tied for my favorite record of the year, i really think its the freshest sounding thing ive heard in a long time. people are lumping it in with eat skull and psychedelic horseshit, but the us girls seems to be its own thing entirely, and is much less rock based.

its really refresing to see women getting in the mix of wierd and exciting music as they were seemingly almost absent for a while in the harsh noise scene. but even that scenes got gals like leslie keffer (who rules) and jessica rylan (who annoys the shit out of me with those silly masturbatory squeals and shit, i heard the new record is good though so ill check it out).

circuit des yeux is really good. check out.

saw US Girls play with heavy winged like 2 weeks back which worked really well.. seeing her play tonight solo .. not sure what to expect as i havent heard any of her works..

i saw her last night and it was really good.

Lucky you.

that sounds like it could be amazing

yeah it worked well might do something with it label wise.

listening to the set from last night which was cool.. she played a analog 4 track reel to reel through an amp, of recordings she pre-recorded and fucked with the tape speeds, and then did vocals through a bunch of effects over it.. one track sounded like a Lez Rallizes Denudes song without the band.. just the vocals and feedback.. was excellent.. i told her afterwards thats what i thought it sounded like and she knew the track and said it was a song called Yoko and me and was from a dream she had... pretty funny.

US Girls play London in the spring.

AWESOME! Where about?

Here ya go:

U.S. GIRLS / FOREST CREATURE
Monday 2 February 8:00
The Old Blue Last
39 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
£6
Buy tickets

I'm getting my ticket NOW!!! Thanks!

i have a ticket already

I got my ticket today. I'm so excited, I want to experience what a bad period feels like for myself.

enjoy guys. it'll be a great show.

The only artist I've actually even heard, out of all those mentioned in this thread, is Zola Jesus. I like her sound a lot and will def check out anything she has in store for the future.

EDIT: I spoke (via email) with Nika of Zola Jesus earlier today. An 8 song EP is due out on Troubleman Unlimited the end of this month! With an LP to follow in May.

This radio show did a Zola Jesus special, they played some old songs, new songs, live stuff, a collab with Dead Luke and an interview.
Listen here: http://wnyu.org/2008-12-17_makeproduct

both of the Zola Jesus singles are just fantastic. I can't get my ears off them (the song "Dog" included)

you're right.

AHH! Thanks so much T&B, that radio special features basically everything she's released at this point, plus previews of the upcoming stuff!! I wanna give some rep, but I can't :(

Mmmm... chicks! Always love them!

are you talking about baby chicks? i love them too.

thank you

yeah, that show is nothing short of fantastic. many thanks.

Seriously, though, do at least check out these three. They are the highest peak of female creativity you can get in music produced in the western world right now. Everything that you might have liked about SY's Kim Gordon at her weirdest, most creative best is here amplified by 100%.

Wow... just got done listening to the interview segments with Zola Jesus from the WNYU radio show. Nika comes off as rather charming... but her boyfriend/bandmate "Dead Luke" is obnoxious as all get out.

are they dating? what a lucky guy if they are.

dead luke's solo stuff is good.

Well she said "we live together" and then they made a joke about him drawing hearts in the air. So I only assumed.

Then again, maybe she likes the ladies. I had no idea she was like 19 years old. That's younger than most of the folks on this board it would seem.

She's 19?! Bloody hell. Well at least teenagers are making good music again.