Details
Catalog #: LMO-139
Tracklist:
2. Radio Girls
3. White Album Girls
4. Anywhere Girls
5. Slingerland Girls
6. Flight School Girls
7. Nowhere Girls
8. Upstream Girls
9. Motormall Girls
10. Cellophane Girls
11. Fender Boys
12. Glacial Boys
13. Rehoboth Boys
14. Radio Boys
15. Trouble Boys
16. Said and Done Boys
17. Catch and Release Boys
18. Rumor Mill Boys
19. 20th Century Boys
20. Crash Test Boys
Pressing Info:
Catherine Dwyer: vocals, guitar, bass, synth
Peter Gill: vocals, guitar, bass, drums
Jack Washburn: guitar, bass, synth
Produced by Catherine Dwyer and Peter Gill
Engineered by Catherine Dwyer
Additional engineering by Lucas Knapp and Jack Washburn
Mixed by Julian Fader
Mastered by Ian Farmer
All songs by Peter Gill (BMI)
Artwork by Peter Gill and Micah Dornfeld
Special thanks to Lucas Knapp, Carmen Perry, Micah Dornfeld, the Dwyer family, Dan Wriggins, Michael Cormier-O’Leary, Jon Samuels, Joey Degrado, and Matt Fox
Overview
Since the 2018 inception of 2nd Grade, Philadelphia-based songwriter and producer Peter Gill (also guitarist for the alt-country band Friendship) has conjured a series of spectacular new worlds via the launch pad of 20th century guitar pop, somehow zooming miles past its hallmark tropes precisely by following them to their logical ends.
Girls and Boys is 2nd Grade’s newest album and first with Lame-O Records, a collection of twenty songs, none breaking three minutes, replete with irresistible guitar riffs, power chords, frenzied drumbeats and whirlwind melody. Songs of vertiginous complexity that you still can’t stop humming.
On Girls and Boys, 2nd Grade repeatedly achieves the perfect pop song’s miraculous trick: making it look easy