Vivian Girls return with the punk rock magic of ‘Memory.’ Read our review
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. Since then, singer-guitarist Cassie Ramone has released a solo album and formed the Babies with Kevin Morby, bassist Katy Goodman formed La Sera, a duo with her husband, and drummer Ali Koehler played with Best Coast and Upset, bands that shared Vivian Girls’ love of beach-y distortion and sharp melodies.
The tough grandeur of their voices is sunny yet stark, simultaneously evoking New York mean streets and endless California skies, the sound of musicians who have their own unique way of channeling rock and roll history; sometimes their lineage is mapped out specifically, as on “Something to Do,” which alludes to the Shangri-Las’ heartbroken masterpiece “Remember ,” the most haunting song of the girl group era.
But the most enjoyable and heartening element here is the fun of witnessing people making music together again years after it seemed like they might’ve been robbed of that experience by forces they fought but couldn’t stop.
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