Album Info

Versions of Modern Performance

Alternative - 2022

For fans of ’90s indie rock—your Sonic Youths, your Breeders, your Yo La Tengos—Versions of Modern Performance will serve as... more

Tracklist

1

Anti-glory

3:30 min
2

Beautiful Song

2:57 min
3

Live and Ski

2:23 min
4

Bog Bog 1

1:53 min
5

Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty)

3:05 min
6

The Fall of Horsegirl

2:40 min
7

Electrolocation 2

1:57 min
8

Option 8

3:33 min
9

World of Pots and Pans

2:52 min
10

The Guitar is Dead 3

0:49 min
11

Homage to Birdnoculars

3:37 min
12

Billy

3:48 min

About Versions of Modern Performance

For fans of ’90s indie rock—your Sonic Youths, your Breeders, your Yo La Tengos—Versions of Modern Performance will serve as cosmic validation: Even the kids know the old ways are best. But who influenced you is never as important as what you took from them, a lesson that Chicago’s Horsegirl understands intuitively. Instead, the art is in putting it together: the haze of shoegaze and the deadpan of post-punk (“Option 8,” “Billy”), slacker confidence and twee butterflies (“Beautiful Song,” “World of Pots and Pans”). Their arty interludes they present not as free-jazz improvisers, but a teenage garage band in love with the way their amps hum (“Bog Bog 1,” “Electrolocation 2”).