Kamikaze Girls
Seafoam
(Wiretap Records)
And you thought Riot Grrrl bands went away once Bratmobile and Bikini Kill called it quits.
With Seafoam, the debut full length from the Leeds-based duo Kamikaze Girls, the genre gets a modern revival of sorts with a subtle mix of emo and a little shoegaze, but still sticking closely to the fuzzed-out guitars, rapid fire drums and feminist lyrics. The result manages to be both comfortably familiar, while still sounding adventurous.
Across 10 tracks, singer/guitarist Lucinda Livingstone and drummer Connor Dawson blast through an impressive set that sounds much larger than you’d expect from just two people. They deftly slide from a slower, yet still sonically fierce number like the album opener “One Young Man” to a more raucous track like “Berlin,” showing a depth that usually comes after years of writing and playing together.
The album does lose a little steam toward the end, but with Seafoam there are enough high points to make up for those rare valleys. With this debut, Kamikaze Girls have set a pretty high benchmark to measure all future efforts against.
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