Audio Cassette review:
Velocity Girl - Copacetic

Velocity Girl - Copacetic

Band: Velocity Girl Title: Copacetic Rating: Release Date: 26 March, 1993 Media: Audio Cassette Tracks: 1: Pretty Sister 2: Crazy Town 3: Copacetic 4: Here Comes 5: Pop Loser 6: Living Well 7: Chang 8: Audrey's Eyes 9: Lisa Librarian 10: 57 Waltz 11: Candy Apples 12: Catching Squirrels

Customer Reviews like a worn out pillow case you never want to part with It's fuzzy, poppy, rough, loud, soft and beautiful. I bought this record in 1993 when I was 13, that was thirteen years ago, and I still listen to it all the time. I still come to realize lyrics after all this time, and "Catching Squirrels" ranks as one of my favorite songs ever. People have compared it to Medicine or The Swirlies, but I honestly have never come across a record quite like it. Buy it. Inspired, but if you don't get it, you don't get it... Archetypical of the low-fi shoe-gazer sound that was ripening to perfection in the early to middle nineties, this recording projects a spectrum of emotions through the lens of fuzzy, feral pop. Velocity Girl's Copacetic is a great album, but it's not for everybody. As with scat, the vocals here are about sound, not a vehicle for poetic lyrics. In this case, the dreamy effect is achieved primarily through the mix. "Here Comes", the album's 4th track, offers the moodiness characteristic of the genre and the era without sounding obligatory or plodding. "Living Well" and "A Chang" send-up an exuberant cacophony of voice, jangling guitars, and distortion, while "Audrey's Eyes" foreshadows the band's more polished sound that emerges in their best work, the album Simpatico. This diamond-in-the-rough is exactly the kind of music you'd expect from a talented young band who were just beginning to realize that they had their world on a string. A must-have for fans of My Bloody Valentine or early Breeders. . not the best/not the worst the mixing and sound quality on this album were horrific. . definately covering up the vocals. i enjoyed a couple of songs on here, but mainly it was a noisy, messy album. i did enjoy their later stuff more. i also had the not so pleasurable experience of seeing them live in nyc quite a few years back and they were horrible, which was very dissapointing. but that was in the early 90s. . they were still young. :). . You can see a complete list of all Velocity Girl discography, or go back to the Velocity Girl tabs