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Brooklyn trio Vivian Girls burst on to the scene last year with a critics-favourite debut album and an ace sound combining 1960s girl-group vocals, fuzzy garage rock, punk and post-punk with blasts of shoegaze and skuzzy DIY charm. On their short road to “out of nowhere” status, the ‘Girls have mastered blurring the lines of genres and come up with something aggressive yet beautiful; simple, gutsy music with a lot of class and melody.
But it’s not so out-of-nowhere as it seems. Cassie Ramone and Kickball Katy were longtime friends from high school, so when former member Frankie Rose and Cassie decided to start a band, Katy seemed the obvious choice to complete the lineup. Spurred on by sharing common (and uncommon) influences, the girls started writing material and playing live in their adopted hometown of Brooklyn. The trio first came to prominence in 2007 supporting indie heavyweights Jay Reatard, Japanther and Crystal Stilts. Their debut limited edition vinyl LP sold out within a matter of weeks, inspiring much-loved label In The Red to sign the band for the US, and Melbourne’s In-Fidelity to snap them up for Australia. Since then, Vivian Girls have had an extremely eventful couple of years as a band, from turning heads at SXSW and other major festivals in the US and Europe, to having their own question on Jeopardy.
The band cites The Gun Club and Neil Young as influences for their eagerly anticipated new full-length album, Everything Goes Wrong (due September 8 on In-Fidelity through Inertia).
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