Tv Girl: Benny and The Jetts (Ep, 2011)

Tv Girl, una vez superados los problemas legales surgidos tras la utilización de un sampler de Todd Rundgren en su anterior y glorioso trabajo de debut (TJB, Diciembre 2010), acaban de editar este verano el que es su segundo trabajo, este Benny and The Jetts, un disco que se aleja algo de los parámetros más popperos de su anterior entrega, para centrarse, aun sin alejarse del Pop con sampleados, en un sonido con algunos toques más Soul. A destacar, sin embargo, Your own religion, el tema que cierra el Ep, un precioso corte con un sampler digamos que hawaiano y con una melodía tremendamente contagiosa. El otro tema destacable es Benny and The Jetts, el titular del disco, canción que trata de manera desenfadada de una chica que escucha el tema de Elton John. El arrope del mismo es absolutamente Soul, y su base rítmica es contundente.
Benny and The Jetts es una perfecta continuación para aquel gran disco de debut, y confirma al dúo californiano como unos verdaderos magos del sampler empleándose a fondo en un formato que, a la postre, resulta el más adecuado para una formación como ésta, utilizando el Ep como el medio idóneo para dar rienda suelta a este tipo de canciones sin abusar demasiado de los samplers. Por cierto, puedes descargar su Ep desde su Facebook.

Tv Girl – Benny and The Jetts (2011)

“You can’t keep a good band down.  Case in point: San Diego’s TV Girl had a run in with the major labels not so long ago.  Their self-titled debut EP featured a Todd Rundgren sample on the single “If You Want It.”  Trying to do the right thing the band reached out to the Warner Music Group, who owns the rights to the sample, hoping to get it cleared.  Warner agreed, but only on the condition that TV Girl would agree to pay a $5,000 clearance fee and100% of any proceeds earned from the track. When TV Girl, who had shared the song for free and weren’t earning any money off of it, unsurprisingly declined Warner’s ransom, Warner promised to snuff out the track by sending takedown notices to the file hosts of every blog that had posted the track (including this one).  Basically, Warner said “We’ve got all the cards – play by our rules or walk away from the table.”  I can imagine that as a new band, having your biggest hit to date fall victim to extortion must be discouraging.
Nonetheless, TV Girl wasn’t about to let that stop them. They are back with brand-spanking new EP titled Benny and The Jets.  The new EP is packed full of bass-filthy pop jams that’ll get your head bobbing and your toes tapping.  The tracks were recorded around the same time as their prior EP, and unsurprisingly have a similar vibe. The Rocket Man referencing title track features a chugging, beefy rhythm section, a glimmering piano melody and more of the slightly-woozy, affectless vocals that helped define their music last time around.  “Baby You Were There” has more of that dirty, busted-speaker bass mingled with a technicolor, tropical vibe built around it’s 50′s-hula-esque sample.  To get to the point: the collection is solid.  Oh yeah, and it is available for FREE.  Download the Benny And The Jets EP from TV Girl’s Facebook“ (turntablekitchen.com)

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TV Girl​/​Dirty Gold Split Digital 7″ (Single, 2011)

Tv Girl realiza un tema de Dirty Gold (Overboard), con su característico sonido luminoso y Retro-Poppero; mientras que Dirty Gold abordan un cover de Tv Girl (On land), bajándole bastante la intensidad y llevándola a su terreno. Este Split lo puedes conseguir gratuitamente desde el Bandcamp que han abierto para la ocasión.

Tv Girl / Dirty Gold Split Digital 7″ (2011)

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TV Girl: TV Girl (Ep, 2010)

 

Si ayer nos hacíamos eco del estupendo Ep de Temple Songs, hoy volvemos nuestros oídos con avidez hacia la música de un dúo de San Francisco que se hacen llamar TV Girl. Trung Ngo y Brad Peterson facturan eso que se dio en llamar Sampler-Pop o lo que es lo mismo: fusilar fragmentos de tema con la intención de incluirlos como base rítmica o acompañamiento para tus propias composiciones. La moda -por las prohibiciones de las leyes de copyright- es hoy por hoy menos utilizada, pero hay ejemplos como los de TV Girl, Monster Rally o The Fantasies que siguen haciendo del Sampler un estupendo medio de expresión. TV Girl es un Ep que se digiere de un tirón y al final del mismo te queda una sensación de necesidad. Porque sus temas son pequeñas explosiones del mejor Pop floreado. Como esas pequeñas bocanadas de aire fresco que tomas cuando sales a hacer footing por las mañanas. TV Girl pueden ser una de las sensaciones del Pop en un futuro próximo. Por lo pronto, temazos como On land (con cierto tono a lo Jesus and Mary Chain), If you want it (con sampler de Todd Rundgren), It´s not something o I don´t care levantan el ánimo de un cadáver.

TV Girl – TV Girl (Ep, 2010)

“You’ll recall San Diego’s TV Girl from our recently released November 2010 Mix.  By way of a little background, TV Girl is the project of duo Trung Ngo and Brad Peterson.  Their recently unveiled self-titled debut EP is free on their bandcamp page and features a series of upbeat tunes that makes indifference sound like it might really be synonymous for having too much fun.  The standout track from this EP is the Todd Rundgren sampling cut “If You Want It.”  It’s a shimmering, but woozy lament from the perspective of a disposable lover, “one last dance and then you delete me from your phone.”  Nonetheless, the fellas from TV Girl don’t seem to mind being used, as they conclude on the chorus: “If you want it, then you’ll get it.”  The preceding track, “I Don’t Care,” is a jittery, bawdy bopper laying out just how much they really, really don’t care about stock market crashes, wars, air pollution, and more, in a way that calls to mind a more roughly-hewn and obscenely glittering version of R.E.M.’s “It’s The End of the World (And I Feel Fine).”  Seriously, try on these rapid-fire lyrics for fun: “I smoke a pack of reds and drink a six pack every day.  I want to stay sane and there ain’t no better way . . . the SATs are unfair — I don’t really care — there are toxins in the air — I don’t really care — the market dropped a million shares — I don’t really care — people are oppressed, but I couldn’t care less — because I don’t really care.” Go ahead and download the EP by following the link above — or don’t — after all, I don’t really care” (turntablekitchen.com)

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