Lovely Little Girls – Effusive Supreme (2023)


Review:
Lovely Little Girls is a theatrical art-rock band from Chicago that features members of Cheer-Accident and The Flying Luttenbachers. They specialize in odd harmonies and catchy melodies served with a histrionic flair. Started as “a chaotic and noisy one-off performance piece inspired by Johanna Went, The Kipper Kids, Henry Darger, and “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane”, Lovely Little Girls evolved over the years, becoming a juggernaut of prog/punk/no-wave absurdity featuring intricate arrangements of dramatic psychodrama. On Lovely Little Girls’ superb new album, Effusive Supreme, front man Gregory Jacobsen croons, warbles, and proclaims, delivering surreal lyrics above a blend of charging, dystopian prog and frenetic funk that recalls alien French zeuhl crew Magma, early no wave, and even Dead Kennedys. Jacobsen is perhaps better known as a visual artist—he favors lushly beautiful, viscerally jarring paintings of human bodies in improbable forms of anatomical distress—but he’s also among the most arresting characters in contemporary rock, whether underground or mainstream. The masterful band he’s assembled is more than worthy of his vision: bassist Alex Perkolup, vocalist and keyboardist L. Wyatt, guitarist Jeff Goulet, saxophonist Cory Bengtsen, trombonist Mike Hagedorn, and drummer Heath Chappell. — by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil on chicagoreader.com


   


Track List:
01 - Polyester and Saltwater
02 - Breathing on the Back
03 - Be Good to Your Shoes
04 - Emphatic Service
05 - Be Quiet
06 - (She Puts The) T & A in TA
07 - Impractical Positions
08 - Shadow of Bees
09 - Procreation of the Wicked
10 - Incomplete


Media Report:
Genre: art rock
Country: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)


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