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Uploaded today is the brilliantly twee debut LP by The Marine Girls released in 1981 on Dan Treacy’s Whaam Records. An absolutely wonderful bit of kit, and one of the late Kurt Cobain’s favorite releases to boot.<\/p>\n
Text below from\u00a0allmusic.com and the Balls Park College (Hertford) photo and flyer from the collection of ex TVP, McTells, Cee Cee Beaumont and Sportique\u00a0member Mark Flunder.<\/p>\n
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Before Tracey Thorn established herself with Everything but the Girl, she produced mellow, spare indie pop with the all-female act the Marine Girls. Inspired by the Raincoats and the Young Marble Giants, Thorn formed the Marine Girls with her schoolmate Gina and Jane Fox in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, in 1980. At first, Thorn played guitar with Gina on vocals and Fox on bass. Since they knew no drummers, the group decided to focus on a minimalist approach to music. After Gina kept missing rehearsals, she was replaced by Jane Fox’s younger sister, Alice Fox, on vocals; Thorn would eventually sing as well. The trio recorded a tape called ‘A Day by the Sea’ and sold it to their acquaintances. The Marine Girls eventually released two albums in the U.K, 1981’s ‘Beach Party ‘ and 1983’s ‘Lazy Ways’. The LP ‘Lazy Ways’ was produced by one of the band’s influences, Stuart Moxham of the Young Marble Giants. While attending Hull University, Thorn began writing songs for herself; she was only able to gig with the Marine Girls during holidays. The Marine Girls broke up after Thorn and Alice Fox had an argument following a concert in Glasgow, Scotland in 1983. Thorn then recorded her solo album ‘A Distant Shore’ before joining Ben Watt in Everything but the Girl.<\/p>\n
The debut album ‘Beach Party’ by the Marine Girls is one of the most willfully amateurish releases of its era, which is not necessarily a bad thing. When it was first released on Daniel Treacy’s Whaam! label in 1981, it undoubtedly sounded impossibly shoddy and nearly inept, filled with deliberately out-of-tune vocals, extremely minimal guitar and bass, and almost no percussion. However, its place as one of the pillars of the twee pop scene, along with the Young Marble Giants’ ‘Colossal Youth’, is now incontestable, and what once might have seemed haphazard instead sounds refreshingly artless and slyly provocative. Tracey Thorn, whose vocals would gain much more technical polish during her years in her next band Everything But The Girl, sings with a sort of offhand grace, while Alice Fox’ more tuneless yelp sounds like a precursor to Kathleen Hanna or Sleater-Kinney. The songs are monochromatic, though a few, particularly the opening ‘In Love’ manage to marry memorable tunes to the group’s deliberate minimalism. This is not an album for anyone who requires a lot of studio polish, but ‘Beach Party’ is far from the grating tunelessness that some early reviewers had labeled it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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