Genre: Indie-pop
Places I remember: Hastings music shop, now gone burger.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Love To Know
Gear costume: A Place In The Sun
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Love To Know
Gear costume: A Place In The Sun
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5
Active compensatory factors: I have already written a post for the first Marine Girls album (1981's Beach Party), Lazy Ways is their second and final album. The band had already broken up by the time it came out with Tracey Thorn starting a solo career before starting Everything But The Girl.
Active compensatory factors: I have already written a post for the first Marine Girls album (1981's Beach Party), Lazy Ways is their second and final album. The band had already broken up by the time it came out with Tracey Thorn starting a solo career before starting Everything But The Girl.
The threesome (Thorn plus the Fox sisters) made a lot of progress in the two and a bit years between albums. The sound is light and breezy but not lo-fi. The guitars strum and the vocals are affective because they lack professionalism at this stage in their career.
It's indie-pop 1983 style to (almost) perfection. In NZ, a long way away, in Dunedin, a group called Look Blue Go Purple started up with a similar aesthetic. They'd last a little longer (1983 to 1987). If Marine Girls strike a chord you will want to also check out LBGP.
Where do they all belong? A lot more to read about my Tracey Thorn (when we get to T)/ Everything But The Girl obsession.
Where do they all belong? A lot more to read about my Tracey Thorn (when we get to T)/ Everything But The Girl obsession.
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