It's unfortunate that sometimes a band may get overlooked because they named themselves something that doesn't sound at all like what they are. The Harvey Girls are one of those bands. Maybe it's because I live under a rock, but when I looked at "The Harvey Girls" the first thought that came to my head was: oh, this is probably some horrible poppy girl-group bullshit (like, say, The Dum Dum Girls, no offense to dum girls). Then I saw the album title: I've Been Watching A Lot Of Horror Movies Lately, which also sounds like something a group of obnoxious woo-girls would name an album. Like, "Ya know, I've been watching a lot of horror movies lately, heee!" It just sounds like that, to me, all of it.

So imagine my surprise when I put on the album and instead I found some moody and creative folky jams in the vein of early Akron/Family. In fact, now that I've made that comparison, this album sounds a lot like the first Akron/Family album with a little dash of These Were The Earlies. It's almost like this album comes from a different time---through time, perhaps, from a date somewhere around the time those albums came out---through the eons this album has traveled, the five long years since 2005, and now here it is, in 2010.

And it's good stuff. I don't have much else to say besides that it's good, and it sounds like Akron/Family at their least noisiest. Check it out.

P.S. I am getting into the bad habit of telling bands that email me that I'll go ahead and post one of their songs, and then I never get around to it. If you're one of those bands and you're reading this wondering where your music is: I'm sorry. I can only motivate myself to write about things I feel a connection to and for some reason 85% of the music that is emailed to me I just can't get fired up about. I'm still trying to listen to your material and eek out some words or inspiration but you just can't force this kind of thing. Well, you could, but then I'd just be a big fake and whatever I said about your music wouldn't mean a damn thing and then I'd probably stop sleeping so good at night because I'd be kept up by all the terrifying thoughts that there is someone out there, right now, listening to bad music because I recommended something I didn't have my heart in. I'm sure you understand, or at least if you hit the bottom of this giant paragraph you may have some sort of idea, or at least you're just annoyed.