Marine Girls were a twee pop band from Herfordshire, England. Despite being English they actually managed to make terrific music. They had already broken up by the release of their second record, Lazy Ways, and they haven't reunited so their legacy remains untainted. The record's minimal yet warm tracks are sprayed with a nautical motif and lovelorn lyrics. And fortunately, instead of forcing the dub tendencies typical of other early 80s English girl bands (The Slits, The Raincoats, The Clash, etc) they opted a more jazz inflected route which suited the band's sparse easygoing style and accentuated their unique rhythms. Marine Girls politely underline how terrible basically everything else from England is.
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hey, good review but there's other good stuff from England!!
ReplyDeleteDolly Mixture & Television Personalities of that era for instance.