Girlpuppy - Sweetness (Bubblegum Pink Vinyl)

Girlpuppy - Sweetness (Bubblegum Pink Vinyl)

Freed from the nagging insecurity that she couldn't be a songwriter without playing an instrument, Harvey began Sweetness by recording full-length acapella voice memos. To find a backdrop for the vocals, Harvey delved into her diverse, lifelong set of musical reference points, from the country and Top 40 pop she grew up on in small-town Georgia to the later favorites that expanded her idea of what songwriting could achieve: Elliott Smith, Lana Del Rey, Yo La Tengo, and more.

With the help of Asheville-based producer/co-writer Alex Farrar and additional co-writers Tom Sinclair and Holden Fincher, Harvey pinpointed a sweet spot between shoegaze, dream-pop, and pop-rock anthems from the turn of the millennium. The arrangements are sometimes nostalgic and always viscerally satisfying in their trajectories, powered by chunky sheens of distorted guitar in the choruses, drums played as hard as pop-punk hits from her youth ("Since April," "For You Too"), and poison-sweet hooks invested with both defiance and desire.

Harvey's friends from throughout the indie rock world helped fill out these arrangements: Horse Jumper of Love's Dimitri Giannopoulos, The War on Drugs' Dave Hartley, Beach Fossils's Tommy Davidson, and more.

Tracklisting:

1. Intro 
2. I Just Do! 
3. Champ 
4. In My Eyes 
5. Windows 
6. Since April 
7. Beaches 
8. I Was Her Too 
9. For You Two 
10. I Think I Did