If indie labels manufactured girl groups then they couldn’t do a much better job than if they’d manufactured Vivian Girls, three geeky-cool, er, girls named after those gender-ambiguous sisters that that Henry Darger guy drew, with a sound that recalls the best, glittery-blurry-shiny-punky moments of Husker Du and three-part cooing-shouting vocal harmonies that sound like if Lydia Lunch and Kim Gordon were in The Shaggs or something. More to the point, this record is just 22 minutes long, and every song is a close-to-perfect pop song along the lines of that basic formula described in the last sentence. Like ‘Never See Me Again’ for example. Or any of the others.I think someone said somewhere the Ramones were basically just Beach Boys at double speed or something like that (I think there was a bpm reference there or something, but I’m no good at bpm). Well, Vivian Girls follow the same reason why that is good. You pretty much need this record in your ears and life. It’s the best thing I’ve heard without a Y chromosome on it since Eagle and Talon about a week ago. 87%Vivian Girls on Myspace