New favourite band # whatever! San Francisco quartet Galore release their eponymous debut album and it's all low-fi, ragged Indie glory of the most basic but beautiful and colourful stripe. Start to finish.
You might like to mention Beat Happening as a possible inspirational source, but essentially this kind of approach has been at play since The Raincoats first appeared. Chuck The Pastels, Tallulah Gosh, The Vaselines, Daniel Johnson, Tiger Trap, Jad Fair, Mouldy Peaches,The Shaggs and The early Go Betweens and Modern Lovers into the mix and you'll have a pretty good idea of what's going down here. Minimalist youth with attitude.
Anyhow, it's all pretty sublime. Self-consciously inept because there's a proud tradition of wonderful bands and artists who are only too aware that being note perfect and proficient music wise has produced all kinds of variations on the deeply tedious down the years. Why bother, when you could be having so much more fun doing stuff like this.
Once Galore, and that's Griffin Jones, Ava Rosen, Hannah Smith and the outstandingly named Britta Leijonflycht, have set out their stall, (which they pretty much do in their first track), you kind of know what's coming next. But that's nothing to be worried about, because they get so much utterly right here. A sparkling, small joy.
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