Grass Widow

You might remember Grass Widow from last year's harmony packed 'To Where' (download) and their self titled debut album on San Francisco's Make A Mess (lovingly interviewed back in October)

Now they're back with a new song and a brand new album 'Past Time' on indie-giants Kill Rock Stars. While it's subtler than their earlier stuff, relying on a measured militant drumbeat rather than full on freak out, the layers can be slowly picked apart to reveal several delicate harmonies in conversation with each other. We might be biased (their debut was our favourite record we heard last year) but we think Hannah, Raven and Lilian's weedy, woozy new-waveish pop will be some of the best you'll hear this year too.

And they're not shying away from the politics of it all either. In a statement, borrowed from the chaps at Stereogum, they talk about moving on from tired riot grrl stereotypes and creating something new.

"We want to thrive in our scene as musicians, with a focus on our musicianship first, not our gender." they say "Our goal is to normalize the role of gender in our craft and have an avenue to express our intelligence and our love of music. We acknowledge that movements of the past created by or affecting women in the art and music worlds are hugely influential, but there is potential for the original sentiments to lose potency if the meaning is misinterpreted or not redesigned for a modern context. Even the riot grrl movement is kind of antiquated. You never really hear people talk about that ‘new riot grrl’ band. We owe a great deal to that lineage but it’s time for something new. We want to be portrayed as the responsible, thoughtful people that we are.

Past Time is out 8/24. They tour the UK this September with Trash Kit.

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