This Saturday at the Comet in Seattle The Girls will be making another appearance. As their demo floated around years back, The Girls were constantly compared to The Cars with cordial and consuming hooks, tunes about the inability to ditch clingy girlfriends and blotto back-up harmonies that were as infectious as they come. When their self-titled debut was released on Dirtnap Records in 2004 they continued their 80s powerpop angle, but topped it off with a new-wave warp where the keyboards lent more to a mechanized buzz giving another lamina to their sound. As a live act they blaze through a high-energy set with a mettlesome swagger, never giving the audience time for a breather. Now with some new recordings under their belts, but no new releases as of yet, you can bet we'll be seeing more of them again. Also on the bill is the weirdly nonplussed clatter of Artificial Limbs featuring The Girls former guitar player, Vas Kumar. Their sound is certainly polar to The Girls with muddled and menacing vocals over creepy and frantic fuzzed keyboard and garbage can drums. The three-piece Seattle act Das Llamas opens.
