Vivian Girls – Everything Goes Wrong

Releasedate: 08-09-2009; Label: In The Red
By: Lara Cappelli

Vivian Girls is an Indie Rock/Punk band from New York formed in 2007. “Everything Goes Wrong” is their second album.

Already the title of the album “Everything Goes Wrong” doesn’t augur well for the content. Afterwards, listening to the first couple of songs you definitely get an idea that there’s really something wrong with what you’re listening to; the frantic melodies of “I Have No Fun” is a good example of it. As a matter of fact, it leaves you pretty disoriented the feeling of being listening to an endless song and then realise it lasts just a minute and a half. And that is something that happens in pretty much every song, the same melodies and lyrics are repeated all over again ‘till you just get enough of them. The good news is that Vivian Girls put the worst in the beginning which makes guess, or rather hope, that the best is yet to come. The problem comes when “the best” is far from being any good, with no imagination or any kind of highlights in it. Every song sounds like a monotonous fruit of one unique melody structured in order to build up a whole song, without any remarkable change or turning-point.

I hope Vivian Girls will mature their sound a little bit someday even because, after all, when everything goes really that wrong I don’t think that reflecting that wrongness in the songs is the way to solve problems, at least from the side of the listener.

Links:
Vivian Girls MySpace
Vivian Girls Official