NPR Weekend Edition
recently profiled indie pop starlet Piney Gir. She talks about keeping the
songs short and sweet in "perfectly formed bursts of pop music" (her
words), recording live as a band in one room, growing up in a fundamentalist Pentecostal household with "happy
clappy Jesus music" (also her words), how the muppets introduced her to
pop music, recording with Tom Benelick who played on 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band,' her part Native American ancestry, and recording in Los
Angeles with producer Rob Campanella of the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Scott
Simon says, "Her sound has been compared to Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn
and Patsy Cline, but on her latest album, Geronimo, Gir sometimes seems to be
conjuring up '60s pop from girl groups to The Troggs."
Here's a brand-new
video of the song "Outta Sight," featuring sock puppets playing a
dating gameshow.
More recent praise for
'Geronimo!,' out now on Highline Records:
"Sun-faded retro
pop [and] all out go go boots… if Piney Gir's buzzing electric guitars and
relentlessly charming vocals were enough to brighten up the UK, we gotta think
they'll be enough to make us Americans cheery." – Baeble Music
"Unabashedly
catchy." - Hitfix
"Pop gems." – Philadelphia Inquirer
"Piney Gir performs a brand of upbeat indie-pop sure to
delight fans of the Vivian Girls and Best Coast." – Pop Matters
"A bit Shangri-Las, a bit Vivian Girls, and a bit Jenny
Lewis." – Blurt Magazine
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