OCD Go Go Go Girls

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Two years in, on the heels of a fantastically scuzzy EP, Lovvers released their first full-length for Wichita Records. The label of Conor Oberst and Los Campesinos! may seem like a strange place for a band influenced by hardcore, but luckily Wichita didn't do much to interfere -- Lovvers' grit and gusto aren't toned back at all. Sharing their sound with the stateside lo-fi punk scene (unlawfully dubbed "shitgaze" by some) alongside No Age and Wavves, or even sounding like their Brit contemporaries Supergrass if they had recorded I Should Coco on a budget tape recorder, the Nottingham four-piece stay true to their roots on OCD Go Go Go Girls. Formerly members of the Murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Tera: Tora, bandmates Shaun Hencher, Henry Withers, Michael Drake, and Steven Rose take cues from `70s punk (notably, Buzzcocks, the Germs, and the Wipers) and update it, mangling it nearly into indecipherability with a brick of distortion. It's only fitting that the album was recorded (to the max on analog tape as a way around digital distortion) in Portland, OR's Jackpot! Studio, where the Exploding Hearts once recorded. The band shares the punk-pop spirit of the Hearts, along with the Marked Men and Jay Reatard, to make results that are loud, sandpapery, hook-laden, and exhilarating. Except for a revised version of the Think EP's best song, "Human Hair," which is good but not quite as inspired as the original take, all of the songs are top-notch. On the surface, the blaring guitar and squeaky vocal chirps blur the tunes together into one fuzz-fueled listen, but under the dirt, the melodies are pure gold. ~ Jason Lymangrover