Bleached - Next Stop | Wednesday Video
Click to viewAmidst the excitement of Sachin's final Test, I forgot to post the weekly music video on Wednesday. This week's track comes from a Los Angeles-based girl band duo. Here's how The Guardian's Paul Lester described them in an article last year:
"Bleached are for fans of (reverse-chronologically) Pins, Vivian Girls, Lush, Shop Assistants and Ramones, if Ramones were female. Ramones meet Ronettes? That's slightly overrating them and their surf-punk garage-pop girl-group grunge. It's very, very primitive - a bit like the Primitives, although Bleached don't have a song in their catalogue as perfect in its own way or as fully-formed as Crash. These are reedy, tinny three-chord rumbles, and we're guessing that's how they're meant to be. They're not a band as such, just Jessica and Jennifer Clavin, two sisters and a mister (with apologies to Haim) on drums for gigs, which perhaps explains the thinness of the sound and lack of bass wallop. They're the Bangles without the bang, the Go-Go's minus that all-important Go and in terms of proficiency and prowess they make Pins sound like Procul Harum. This may strike you as A Good Thing."
Perhaps not Lester's cup of tea, but I quite like them. The song above is from their first album, Ride Your Heart, released earlier this year. NME gave it 8/10, Pitchfork 6.6. Here's two of their other tracks I like: Think of You | Looking for a Fight.
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