Michigan power pop trio Cheap Girls are sharing another track today from their upcoming release God’s Ex-Wife, a rarities and B-sides collection of older material that will be released on Asian Man Records on September 16, 2016 (full track listing below). “The Same Thing” comes from the band’s split 7″ with Failures Union, which was limited to 500 copies and has never before been released digitally.
Pre-order for God’s Ex-Wife is now available via both Asian Man Records and Cheap Girls’ webstore.
Songwriter Ian Graham says of the track, “I remember having a lot of the words and phrases for this song floating around for a while, moving them around and wondering if they’d turn into something. It was one day in the late summer of 2008 that I woke up, battled myself all morning, then took my guitar up to my attic that I used to write in. It became one of those rare, almost unreal, times in writing where it all completed itself in the length of one time through the song.
“The Same Thing” is one of those songs that I’ve always thought summed up all that I was going for at that time. And still, really. It felt like I couldn’t get more of myself into a song, and it’s consistently rewarding because now it’s always there to give me a little more peace.”
If you haven’t heard Cheap Girls yet, there’s an excellent chance they’re your favorite band’s favorite band. Tapped to tour with everyone from The Gaslight Anthem to Joyce Manor to Against Me! and The Hold Steady, it’s apparent that Cheap Girls fans carry some serious clout.
Their most recent LP, 2014’s Famous Graves was recorded in Chicago and Grand Rapids by Rick Johnson (who recorded Cheap Girls’ first two records, 2008’s Find Me a Drink Home & 2009’s My Roaring 20’s) and Jeff Dean (The Bomb, Dead Ending, All Eyes West). The follow-up to their 2012 release Giant Orange, Famous Graves sees the band continuing to grow their authentic Midwestern rock that’s drawn comparisons to bands such as The Lemonheads, The Replacements, and early Smoking Popes.
God’s Ex-Wife Track Listing:
1. Better Thoughts Instead
2. Twice As Much
3. Dim Lights
4. The Same Thing
5. 7-8 Years
6. Gone All Summer
7. Cored to Empty (Alternate full band version)
8. Kerosene
9. Sunnyside (Find Me A Drink Home version)
10. Living Like Hell
11. Stop Now (Original demo)
12. I Know, Right?
