Vivian Girls is the debut album by lo-fi/punk

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band Vivian Girls

Vivian Girls

Vivian Girls are an American band from Brooklyn, New York.- History :Vivian Girls, named after the magnum opus of outsider author Henry Darger, started in Brooklyn, NY in March 2007 as the trio of Cassie Ramone ; Katy "Kickball Katy" Goodman; and Frankie Rose...

, released September 30, 2008.

Reception

According to Metacritic

Metacritic

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, the album was met to universal acclaim receiving a 81/100 based on 14 reviews.

"the melodies, all hard and spiky on the outside and gooey on the inside, like tough girl music should be" - Plan B

Plan B (magazine)

Plan B was a monthly music magazine based in London, England. It catered mainly towards independent music but did not discriminate between the relative popularity of the bands it features. Plan B also documented alternative culture such as film, comics, video games, visual art and books. The...

"between the omnipresent slabs of reverb, the trio flip between harmonic garage rock, gloomy melodies and twee-Birthday Partyisms" - NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

 (8/10)

Trivia

The album was named the 16th best album of 2008 by Pitchfork Media

Pitchfork Media

Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...

 and the 9th best album of 2008 by Rough Trade.

Track listing

1. "All the Time" - 1:57
2. "Such a Joke" - 1:43
3. "Wild Eyes" - 1:55
4. "Going Insane" - 1:29
5. "Tell the World" - 3:36
6. "Where Do You Run To" - 3:15
7. "Damaged" - 2:06
8. "No" - 1:19
9. "Never See Me Again" - 1:41
10. "I Believe in Nothing" - 2:26