{"id":4662,"date":"2016-09-01T10:10:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T10:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-cheap-girls-gods-ex-wife\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T21:20:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:20:41","slug":"album-review-cheap-girls-gods-ex-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-cheap-girls-gods-ex-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Cheap Girls – God\u2019s Ex-Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The extremely likeable blend of straightforward rock, punk pop and college radio makes Cheap Girls<\/b> a highly listenable proposition and ‘God’s Ex-Wife’<\/i> is a rough and ready collection of B-sides and rarities from Michigan’s finest that slipped under the radar.<\/p>\n

As a collection of off-cuts spanning the first nine years of the band’s career, it’s a veritable melting pot of sounds and vibes. We get everything from original demos, like the raw ‘Stop Now’<\/i> to driving pop punk on the rocking alternative full band version of ‘Cored to Empty’<\/i>, and rough and ready acoustic workouts on ‘I Know, Right’<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It’s all very enjoyable, although the first few tracks, like the mid-tempo indie rock of ‘Twice As Much’<\/i> and the disjointed ‘Dim Lights’<\/i>, don\u2019t really offer anything spectacular. Things really start to pick up with the dirty riffing of ‘The Same Thing’<\/i> where everything comes together a little better and even more so on ‘7-8 Years’<\/i>, which is a particularly cool blend of acoustic and electric guitars that gives it an emotional intensity otherwise lacking on other tracks.<\/p>\n

By the time we get to the storming cover of Bad Religion\u2019s ‘Kerosene’<\/i>, a noisy rocker with a catchy chorus, everything is firing on all cylinders. Yet nothing is quite as coolly unusual as the \u2019Find Me a Drink Home Version\u2019<\/i> of ‘Sunnyside’<\/i>, with its striking combination of marching band rhythms and guitar distortion.<\/p>\n

All in all this is an enjoyable collection; sure there are probably a number of songs that will resonate more with long running fans of the band, but it also serves as an interesting introduction to a likeable group.<\/p>\n

3.5\/5<\/p>\n

‘God’s Ex-Wife’<\/em> by Cheap Girls<\/strong> is released on September 16th on Asian Man Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Cheap Girls<\/strong> links:Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Edward Layland (@EdwardLayland<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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