The Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong reviews
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| Pitchfork |
 There's almost no gray area when it comes to Vivian Girls-- people either love or hate this band. For all of us who fell for their 2008 debut, there were just as many others who cried foul. Boy, did they cry. "The singing is flat!" "I heard this in the 80s when it was better!" And, of course, that most classic of put-downs: "They can't even play their instruments!" Such criticisms miss the point. We are talking about punk music, after all, and since when did studied musicianship become a prerequisite there? And frankly these are the same folks who will tell you that a band like Dirty Projectors is too pointillist, too proggy, too musical, so apparently there's a golden medium somewhere that I'm unaware of. So let's focus on the important stuff: Is this band doing something interesting? Do their songs sound good?
On last year's Vivian Girls, the answer to those questions was a simple yes. Tell me "Where Do You Run To" and "Tell the World" aren't great pop tracks and I'll argue you until I'm blue in the face. But, sure, there were probably other factors at play in their success. The timing was ideal, for one. Vivian Girls arrived at the onset of the lo-fi resurgence-- a point when hazy guitar pop wasn't quite so, um, prominent, and when the mention of "shitgaze" would elicit an eyebrow raise instead of an eye roll. A year and what feels like hundreds of scuzzy records later, the band faces a thorny task with their sophomore LP, Everything Goes Wrong. Lo-fi fatigue has officially set in for many listeners, and fair or not, it feels like the band has to fight off a backlash not only against themselves but also against the genre they represent....full text |
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| Undertheradar |
Earlier this year we bought Vivian Girls’ first album on vinyl and while I love “Where Do You Run To”, the song that initially attracted my attention to Vivian Girls in the first place, I have to say I was a little disappointed in the album as a whole. I can’t pinpoint exactly why but it doesn’t sound that great, which could be the pressing or our record player; I don’t have a digital version to compare it to. Even so, I do enjoy putting it on but my initial disappointment does linger on.
Everything Goes Wrong instantly sounds heaps better, even as a live stream, they’ve managed to keep a vintage sound but it’s nice and clear and loud. It’s not often I instantly like an album, especially not all the way through and I do really like this album right to the end. I’ve listened to it all the way through three times back to back and will happily go back for more. No stands out yet– all the songs are really good – I wish it didn’t have to end. I can't wait to get it on vinyl....full text |
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| Prefixmag |
| At least superficially, this album is a great step forward for the Vivian Girls. It took them six days to record it as opposed to the three days it took for Vivian Girls, and the songs are longer, too -- some almost twice as long as those on their debut. The tracks are darker and moodier, but as this is a notoriously divisive band, don't expect a complete reinvention that will bring the naysayers around. The punk rock influences are still there, as well as the one-take recording philosophy that brought about the accusations of posing and incompetence in the first place....full text |
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