Girls

FUN FUN FUN FEST 2011

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• Public Enemy

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

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  BY AUSTIN POWELL

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• B L A C K I E

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  BY MELANIE HAUPT

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  BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

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  BY MARC SAVLOV

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  BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

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  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• Hull

  Beyond the Lightless Sky

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

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  Arabia Mountain

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Girls

  Father, Son, Holy Ghost

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• Mates of State

  Mountaintops

  BY MELANIE HAUPT

• Lykke Li

  Wounded Rhymes

  BY MELANIE HAUPT

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  Hysterical

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  Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

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  Why Should I Get Used to It

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  Tassili

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

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  Cherish the Light Years

  BY MELANIE HAUPT

• Jim Ward

  Quiet in the Valley, On the Shores the End Begins

  BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

Girls

Christopher Owens turns the simple into the sublime with disarming vulnerability. The San Franciscan's near-perfect Girls debut, 2009's Album gave slow nods to Elvis Costello and David Bowie with bleached song cycles about almost androgynous love. FSHG continues this wheelhouse effect, drifting from Smile session bounce on opener "Honey Bunny" into the heavy-psych wind tunnel of "Die" and sprawling anchor "Vomit." The medicated airiness of "Forgiveness" and gospel-tinged "Love Like a River" carry the second half like Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space drifting over to The Dark Side of the Moon. (Sat., 6:30pm, Orange stage)