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GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS | Roundup of 'Album' Reviews

So the twood (mood on Twitter) this morning was pretty funny. Peeps were seemingly blindsided by the late-breaking Girls onslaught in the form of Pitchfork's trotting out of the gate on a Friday morning with a Tom Breihan-curated Best New Music for the San Francisco band's debut album, Album.

Self-Titled magazine told Breihan it agreed with him and wanted to put them on its next cover waaaay before FADER (ahead of the curve on a lot of things) decided to do so.

Rob Mitchum wished he had come out disliking Girls "before Girls Backlash Day."

Chris Weingarten (@1000TimesYes) said the album is "just pretty good," reminding his twaudience of the 7/10 he gave it in one of his 140-character reviews.

Breihan replied, "Bring it on, kids!," adding that he tried to give Separation Sunday a 9.2 back in the day.

Mitchum clarified: the bad on Album outweighs the good.

I said the three great songs carry the weight of the bad ones.

Weingarten replied: Or the one great song.

Burn.

Meanwhile, PopMatters doesn't care about Album.

Tiny Mix Tapes doesn't care either UPDATE: a 4/5, but not really enough actual words to do it justice.

Coke Machine Glow digs it 81 percent.

Rolling Stone (who cares?) gave it its favorite designation ever, a 3.5. Yawn.

And finally, I gave it a 4/5 over at Baeble.

Thanks to Idolator for inspiring this format of blog entry (a revue of reviews).

Photo: Nicole Leighton via Girls' MySpace.

Hear, Here | Mp3s from Girls, Choir of Young Believers & DM Stith

Here's my new free mp3 feature. Don't ask how often it'll run. It was inspired by reading Greg Kot's Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music, subsequently writing "The (Indie) Music Industry Is All Right" for my PopMatters column, Backslash (top article on the site for two weeks!), and subsequently reading Nick Hornby's "The thrill of it all," about mp3 blogs, in The Guardian (read it now!)

Choir of Young Believers - "Action/Reaction"

DM Stith - "Pigs" feat. Jefferson Street Band

Girls - "Hellhole Ratrace"

On Your Shopping List:

Choir of Young Believers - This Is For The White In Your Eyes (Ghostly, 8.18.09)

DM Stith - Thanksgiving Moon EP (Asthmatic Kitty, 11.3.09)

Girls - Album (True Panther Sounds/Matador, 9.22.09)

Photo courtesy of Girls