Įven the cover of Album refused to let us into t heir jaded, faded junkie world completely : The vintage necrophile photography of our times depicted a collection of photos, divided in corners: technicolor flowers, a Telecaster hiding a bleary-eyed tall dood and above that, an image of a tiny guy clutching an acoustic guitar as if you'd just caught him masturbating. but the secrecy of how Girls' debut was created lingered on. The desire for myth-making may have turned into dangerous, refreshingly honest interviews that spilled it all: from the drugs, to the women, or the influences. It was as if you only needed to read a Pitchfork article to know the entire Girls story.įor all the open exhibitionism of Girls (there's a dick used as a microphone in one of their videos), there's still plenty of mystery that shrouds the process of how they created the timeless escapism of Album. We never had the chance to hear Girls' own story without their lead singer's origin being front and center: "damaged songwriter Chris Owens was raised in a cult + unseen / unheard genius J.R: the only child of a Dead-Head WASP family from Northern Cal, etc." Perhaps it was never meant to last: this was a duo that were pegged to an iron cross of hyperbole the second we all read Owens' publicized backstory (in conjunction with their epic "Hellhole Ratrace" making the rounds in 2008). Girls came down like a meteor : they created three records of unbridled brilliance, they conquered the indie blogosphere almost overnight, received as much critical acclaim over a three year period as anyone could possibly accept, had their street urchin / drug addict lifestyle taste tested and dutifully turned into indie chic by anyone wanting to make big, then as quickly as they came, they were gone.
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In the midst of 2009's chillwave parody and bevy of rustic-sounding artists all named after animals , ".I was thinking in terms of what a cool band The Velvet Underground were, and how they were much bigger after they were gone and I'd forgotten that when we first started Girls, I wanted us to be a band like that."