Lovely Little Girls is a theatrical art-rock band from Chicago that features members of Cheer-Accident and The Flying Luttenbachers. They specialize in odd harmonies and catchy melodies served with a histrionic flair.
Started as “a chaotic and noisy one-off performance piece inspired by Johanna Went, The Kipper Kids, Henry Darger, and “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane”, Lovely Little Girls evolved over the years, becoming a juggernaut of prog/punk/no-wave absurdity featuring intricate arrangements of dramatic psychodrama.
“Effusive Supreme is our foray into more pop and dance territory, warping it and making it weird. The record is still non-idiomatic as ever, and it’s even difficult for us to explain it. We bring in a lot of influences that don’t always work out on paper. With our music backgrounds and abilities, the music coalesces into something unique. A lot of bits get left on the cutting room floor. We shape the songs and tracking to push you onto the tracks of a rollercoaster, your body getting dragged behind the cart.
This is our first truly collaborative album. In the past, songs were demoed by bassist Alex Perkolup and myself. Effusive Supreme is the result of us playing together for many years, communicating our own peculiar language. Singer L. Wyatt has also emerged into the front line, acting as a collaborator and respondent to my caterwauling and theatrics. We are the Sonny & Cher of avant-rock, the Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson of no-wave.
One of our stranger concoctions is our cover of Celtic Frost’s Procreation (of the Wicked). It’s a song I have always loved. It’s meat and potatoes rock when it comes down to it but the playing is so odd and idiosyncratic. I always have fantasies of elaborating on the orchestration and arrangements of stuff like Flipper and Dead Kennedys. There are so many ideas in those songs that can be extrapolated, and the song template is wide open. Our version of Procreation took these elements and reimagined them. The song is still identifiable and retains its aura of dread and horror. Oh yeah, and we kept it in 4/4, making it an automatic crowd-pleaser during live shows. An expanded version of the song also appears on Skin Graft’s Sounds to Make You Shudder compilation.” – Gregory Jacobsen
Listen to ‘Effusive Supreme’ – BELOW:
FOLLOW LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS ON THEIR TOUR:
10/13: Chicago @ The Burlington* with Imelda Marcos, Life of Yum Yum
10/14: St. Louis @ Platypus* with Zantigo!
10/15: Cincinnati @ Northside* Tavern with FroOot Loops
10/16: Asheville, TBD*
10/17: Atlanta, TBD* with Flesh Narc & Cabo Boing
10/18: Mobile, TBD*
10/19: New Orleans @ AllWays Lounge* with Primpce
10/20: San Marcos, TX @ The Porch* with Attic Ted
10/21: Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves* (No Coast Fest)
*-dates with Pili Coït
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