Vivian Girls – s/t

An all-girl trio singing short punkish shoegaze songs washed with sweet feedback? I’ll take some. This is the colour of their music:

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The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

At the moment The Beach Boys are my favourite old band, so I’m trying to find as much of their material on the web as possible. But no matter which compilation you find, it is never complete without the complete Pet Sounds album. It’s a classic, claimed by many to be their best ever, the first album Brian Wilson wrote after he quit touring with the band and with great focus on vocal and (often unconventional, especially for those days – 1966) instrumental harmonies.

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