I'm digging Vivian Girls. Music blogs are slurping them these days with good reason. Aside from their music they have a good story: 3 chicks who play lo-fi, harmony heavy indie pop that also happens to throwback to Winehouse progenitor 60's girl groups. That's a good melange.
Vivian Girls - I'll Tell the World
They're super jangly.
Another part of their story is their name. It's a reference to the mythology depicted in the artwork of "outsider" artist Henry Darger, whose notoriety is in itself the result of a good story. Darger was a lonely old janitor whose landlord discovered his artwork only after Darger had passed away. The drawings and paintings depicted a thoroughly imagined fantasy land that resembled a cross between Disney and David Lynch.
The heroes of this crazy weird violent fairy tale were the Vivian girls, perfect looking little adolescent white girls in short dresses. It's probably pretty pedaphilic but nonetheless the artworld slurped this shit up in the same way that blogs are now jocking Vivian Girls. With good reason.
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