All the Real Girls, Movie Star Handsome | The Vinyl Anachronist

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For the last few weeks I’ve been discussing an interesting trio of electronica LPs I’ve received, and now I’ve got an interesting trio of Americana albums in the review pile. The first entry was that sprawling 2-LP set from The Sam Chase & the Untraditional, and now we have All the Real Girls and their new LP Movie Star Handsome. Unlike Sam Chase’s epic saga, this is a straightforward album that focuses more on songwriting than grandeur–you get a tight band that sounds they’ve been playing rock and roll for most of their careers and then heard something that made them want to explore the country side of things. In fact, All the Real Girls will remind you of California in the ’70s when Gram Parsons was running around and touching everything and turning it into gold. That, of course, is not a bad thing. All the Real Girls are based in Seattle, not SoCal, and they’re the simplest of classic rock quartets: Peter Donovan on rhythm guitar and vocals, Matt Millen on drums, Zander Nevitt on lead guitar and Evan West on bass. As I’ve already emphasized, they play the type of folk/Americana/country/rock that reaches across the room and […]

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