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Little Girls announce North American tour in support of debut album Concepts Cover of Artery’s ‘Heinz’ available for download

Little Girls announce North American tour in support of debut album Concepts Cover of Artery’s ‘Heinz’ available for download

Toronto – Little Girls aka Josh McIntyre and co. are preparing for an extensive excited to announce a North American tour performing with Japandroids, Monotonix, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Wavves and Nurses among others, in support of their of debut album Concepts (Paper Bag Records). The eleven-track album will be available on CD, limited vinyl, and digitally, from October 13th. Before hitting the road, the Girls decided to record a cover of 70s-80s Sheffield, UK post-punk group Artery’s song “Heinz,” and are making it available for free download.

Concepts spans from the very first Little Girls track ever written to brand new material, including the songs that sparked early blog attention off their MySpace, which ended up on the preceding Tambourine EP and and 12″ on Brooklyn label Mexican Summer. Word about Little Girls started circulating earlier this year via some early blog attention from songs discovered on the band’s MySpace and the subsequent release of their Tambourine EP and 12″ on Brooklyn label Mexican Summer. The band’s debut spans from the very first Little Girls track ever written to brand new material. The album was recorded only at night in a home studio with most of the songs contributing to an ongoing theme of ‘growing up.’

It all started when McIntyre recorded a few songs in his home studio as a side project in early 2009. Seeking the unbiased opinions from friends and musical peers he anonymously posted the music on the internet under the name “Little Girls,” a name he believed least likely to reveal his identity. His influences come from the 80’s no-wave post-punk scene, and the early 80’s golden era of hip-hop. Equally influential are the late hip-hop artist J. Dilla, as well as Can, Joy Division, Wire, and The Clean. Other Little Girls releases have been handled by Mexican Summer and Captured Tracks. Since then, the band toured has played several dates with Japandroids, and was asked to perform at the Woodsist/Captured Tracks Festival in NYC alongside Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls, Kurt Vile and Thee Oh Sees among others this summer. They’ll also be performing several dates and parties at this year’s CMJ Music Marathon past July.

Early “Concepts” What people are saying about Little Girls:

“McIntyre’s atonal melodies and muddy vocals converge with clanging guitar chords and hypnotic, looped rhythms…Little Girls’ surges of pop genius suggest they won’t have to settle for worship from just the underground”. – Exclaim!

“Turns out that playing lo-fi goth jams at 33rpm when they’re meant to be played at 45 is the most depressing experience ever, as we discovered when we bought the super limited Little Girls 12-inch and forgot to flip the switch. And then we sat in a chair, sun streaking through the window, and pondered existence. Eventually spirit guide told us to speed things up and REVELATION! ..these are jams–check them out, and if you’re down, envelop yourself in the Little Girls explosion…” – The Fader

“Little Girls’ catchy brand of lo-fi guitar-pop is coming your way” – Pitchfork

“…riding the dirty wave of ultra lo-fi yet extremely melodic/endlessly hummable noise-pop that seems to be building right now comes Toronto’s Little Girls” – Gorilla v Bear

“Tambourine starts with “Youth Tunes”. It’s probably the best rock song I’ve heard this year, despite everything working against it: McIntyre’s voice is incomprehensible, the music is repetitive, shapeless, and at the moment where one would expect a final repetition of the chorus, one gets a sample from some Frankenstein movie. … a work of near-religious catharsis” – Toro

Little Girls ‘Concepts’ Tour 2009

9/16 –- Windsor, ONT – Phog Lounge

9/17 –- Detroit, MI – Magic Stick *

9/18 –- Guelph, ONT – Albion *

9/23 – Montreal, QC- Friendship Cove **

9/25 –- Ottawa, ONT – Cafe Dekcuf

10/3 –- Montreal, QC – Barfly

10/7 –- Toronto, ONT – Velvet Underground ^

10/8 –- Hamilton, ONT – Casbah ^

10/10 –- Chicago, IL – Schubas (all ages matinee show) *

10/20 – New York, NY – Cake Shop

10/24 – Halifax – The Paragon ^^

11/06 –- Philidelphia, PA – Swarthmore #

11/08 –- Columbus, OH – Summit &

11/09 – St Louis, MO – Billiken Club &

11/11 – Lawrence, KS – Jackpot Saloon &

11/18 –- Windsor, ONT – Phog Lounge +

11/19 –- Waterloo, ONT – Bombshelter +

11/20 –- Toronto, ONT – Phoenix ++

11/21 –- Sudbury, ONT – Townhouse +

11/25 –- Winnipeg, MB – Royal Albert +

11/26 –- Saskatoon, SK – Amigo’s +

11/27 –- Edmonton, ALB – New City +

11/28 –- Calgary, ALB – Hi-Fi +

* w/ Japandroids

** w/ Wavves

^ w/ Monotonix

^^ w/ Japandroids, You Say Party! We Say Die!

+ w/ You Say Party! We Say Die!

++ w/ Think About Life, You Say Party! We Say Die!

# w/ Blank Dogs

& w/ Nurses

Little Girls’ cover of Artery’s ‘Heinz’:

Little Girls decided to record a cover of one of their influences, ’70s/’80s Sheffield, UK post-punk group Artery’s song “Heinz.” The cover has now been made available as a free mp3 download in celebration of the upcoming tour. www.paperbagrecords.com/mp3s/LittleGirls-Heinz_Artery_Cover.mp3