Album Review: Father, Son, Holy Ghost by Girls

This album has two major problems. The first is that it has no direction. It's all over the place in sound and presentation and so you can never get into a frame of mind with the album. This makes it feel longer than it is and leaves you feeling a bit cold at the end of the whole thing. The second big problem is that they over embellish. The songs at times just seem to take off on their own with no real rhyme or reason to their construction. The best example of this is the back to back songs "Vomit" and "Just a Song." Tucked in the middle these two six minute soft, heavily instrumental tracks are just a bit overdone and so the emotional pull gets lost.

This is their second album and obviously these guys are trying to figure out who they are. Here is what we can take from this album. When they want to they can construct very tight, very pop heavy songs that draw heavily from Buddy Holly and Big Star, "Honey Bunny." They can also go the moody pop root again heavily influenced by Big Star, "Alex." That stuff works brilliantly and I hope that's the path they follow, but the majority of the album goes in completely different directions, drawing from people like Heart and Pink Floyd and so we'll have to see where these guys end up.

Following the Rhapsody rating method I give it 2 out of 5 stars for Not Bad.