Artist: West Indian Girl
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West Indian Girl
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Putting the "spaced" support into space rock, California neo-psychedelicists West Indian Girl play a druggy pattern of ambition pop up that takes the contemporaneous style of the Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, and Mercury Rev as their starting point and add '60s and '70s echoes ranging from the drone freakout side of the Velvet Underground through the phased rambling of early-'70s Pink Floyd to the Beach Boys' spaced-out postSmile period. Though they sound like they've exhausted their lives within hitchhiking distance of Laurel Canyon, West Indian Girl's roots ar in Detroit circa the early '90s, when vocalist and guitarist Robert James and bassist Francis Ten kickoff met. After Ten moved to Los Angeles, the pair continued their collaboration through the mail until James followed his musical better half west. Taking their name from a legendary potent var. of early street LSD, James and Ten signed with EMI's alternative impression Astralwerks and formed a proper band for bouncy gigs, including background isaac M. Singer and percussionist Mariqueen Maandig, keyboardist Chris Carter, and drummer Mark Lewis. After the 2004 release of their self-titled debut album, West Indian Girl released a more dance-oriented remix EP in 2006. That same twelvemonth, Carter left the band, replaced by a new geminate of keyboardists, Nathan Van Hala and Amy White. Parting company with Astralwerks subsequently their 2 releases failed to ignite practically bill, West Indian Girl signed with the indie mark Milan Records and announced the release of their second proper album, 4th and Wall, in October 2007.
