LISTENING
I’ve started Chinese New Year Break, so I haven’t been doing much new music. The week before I left on holiday, I downloaded the entire Marine Girls discography into a Spotify playlist and listened to it almost exclusively one day in Okinawa. I first heard about the Marine Girls through Expressway to Yr Skull. The Marine Girls were a minimalist (guitar, bass, vox, the lightest percussion) post-punk band from England in the 80s. They have some really good songs and a really good vibe. Kurt Cobain names their album Beach Party (the other one is Lazy Waves) one of his favorite 50 albums. Even though the music is over 30 years old, it feels like something I could find in an alternative music venue. But then it also sounds older than the 80s. Like it could be from the 60s. It’s another one of the bands that I would pick to build the soundtrack of a Wes Anderson movie. I suppose that means Marine Girls sounds timeless.
APE AND TACO 