Girlinky - My Huge Head

  by John Clarkson

published: 17 / 12 / 2001

Label: Dedear
Format: CDS

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Girlinky are a New Zealand rock trio, who have recently relocated to London. While the group have been together for eight years and have put out various records and videos back home, 'My Huge Head', w

Girlinky are a New Zealand rock trio, who have recently relocated to London. While the group have been together for eight years and have put out various records and videos back home, 'My Huge Head', which Girlinky has self-produced and self-released, is the band's first British release. Featuring Rob, Sarah and Scott, the group play ramshackle, rumbustious rock in the mode of Pavement and Dinosaur Jr. The title track combines siren-style guitars and razor sharp boy-girl harmonies with a surreal, wacky lyric about relationship grief. 'My Umbrella', which finds Rob out of sorts and wanting to hide from the world and especially his girlfriend, is equally offbeat. The more brooding 'Midden', which has Sarah on vocals, meanwhile bounces bubbling echoes of synthesiser against sudden injections of noisy guitar. Far cleverer and more cohesive than its deliberately chaotic sound at least initially implies, 'My Huge Head' is wry, witty highly entertaining pop that grows with each new airing.

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