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The Micragirls
Wild Girl Walk Bone Voyage Recording Company

Article written by Ged M - Jan 10, 2010

Micragirls: Wild Girl Walk

The Micragirls champion the gritter, seedier side of rock’n’roll, represented by the likes of the Pebbles, Wavy Gravy and Songs the Cramps Taught Us compilations. The three-piece build their excitement from simple guitar or keyboard riffs played fast and loud, with loads of reverb on the guitar and a bass organ supplying all the low notes. For their second album (following the frenzied Feeling Dizzy Honey), they’re joined by Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray, whose primitivo-rock Heavy Trash they’ve supported, and that sparky/snarly interplay between female and male voices adds another dimension to these songs. They cover Wanda Jackson’s ‘Funnel of Love’ less suggestively than the Cramps did but their own songs provide the most exhilarating kick, particularly the flat-out ‘Rock’n’Roll Rocket’. And while most of the album is feverish rock’n’roll, they take it down well on the harmony-drenched ‘Summer’s Gone’ and ‘Story of Two’, where the melancholic melodies echo the best of Scandinavian indiepop. Thanks to the collective efforts of Mari, Kata and Risu in that freezing cold place called Finland, the garage rock torch is burning bright.

Links:
http://www.themicragirls.com/
http://www.bonevoyagerecordings.com/artists/the-micragirls
http://www.myspace.com/micragirls