Girlyman

Sharp hooks

by James M. Manheim

posted 4/1/2008

Quite a few young bands have gone back to draw on the folk-rock of the 1960s, having realized, perhaps, that a good hook is harder to create than any number of more outwardly strenuous effects. There's no shortage of memorable hooks in the music of the New York trio Girlyman, which picks up a vein of folk harmony and songwriting that began with Simon and

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