Vivian Girls - Waterloo Records, Austin TX - October 16, 2009

[from Brooklyn NY] everybody wanted to see them at SXSW and nobody saw them - they were three very young girls from Brooklyn harmonizing in a pleasantly monotonous almost atonal fashion – not what I expected but it was an acoustic set so can’t really judge – maybe a little pretentious in the Yo La Tengo way with their disregard for hitting the right note – the flatline melodies were intentional and while the FrustratedPhilosopher found it to be obnoxious hipster posturing, I found it comforting – created a pleasant drone – they were described as surfer girls which made me like their sound more - they were also described as having opened for Jay Reatard (awwww) and Sonic Youth which did not at all fit their sweetie sweet vibe (Photo courtesy of https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevehopson/4022809179/)

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