Cleaning the Filth From a Delicate Frame

by Lovely Little Girls

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1.	Massive Vulva Cantaloupe 03:52	buy track
2.	Undulate 05:12	buy track
3.	Buttocks of Gloss 04:07	buy track
4.	Cleaning the Filth From a Delicate Frame 05:31	buy track
5.	Poor-Fitted Boys 06:54	buy track
6.	I'm So Good Looking 07:50	buy track
7.	Dried Up 02:17	buy track

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**TOUR DATES**

4/03 - Kent, OH @ Zephyr w/ Moth Cock, Perfect
4/04 - Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA w/ Evil Sword, Morgan Garrett
4/05 - Trenton, NJ @ Millhill Basement w/ The Chemical Imbalance, Best Dressed Ghost
4/06 - New York, NY @ Hart Bar w/ TBD Dahl/Shea/Hirsch, MZZTR
4/07 - Richmond, VA @ Gallery 5 w/ TBD
4/09 - Raleigh TBD
4/10 - Asheville, NC @ The Odd w/ Okapi, Dot Com Bubble, Free Doom Collective
4/11 - Nashville, TN @ The Mouth w/ HAGZ + In Place Quartet
4/12 - Indianapolis, IN @ Melody Inn w/ Mr Clit & the Pink Cigarettes, Modern Drugs, Arc of Etheline

Chicago's Lovely Little Girls focus on the details; that bit of flab hanging over a waistband, those ill-fitting shoes that carve deeper with each step and that slight underbite - teetering between the lovely and the repugnant.

Lovely Little Girls are an avant-rock band directed by artist Gregory Jacobsen and bassist Alex Perkolup. Using Jacobsen's grotesque paintings as a starting point, Lovely Little Girls construct theatrical No-Wave suites that morph from of-kilter dance anthems to punishing and ridiculous progressive rock. Simple musical motifs quickly deform into charges of odd harmony and tangled polyrhythms, punctuated by syllable-stuffed cut-and-paste prose; and grounded in a love for catchy melodies – a gravy-encrusted GLEE for the regressive metal and free jazz set.

With “Cleaning the Filth From a Delicate Frame” the distressingly low-cut of Lovely Little Girls' jib has reached new heights. The band's latest recording and first for Skin Graft Records is a linear suite of songs that spin an abstract tale of birth, incompetent sex, over-ripe food and undignified death. Using multiple singers and different narrative voices, this is Lovely Little Girls' most cohesive work yet – a seven stage Théâtre de l'Absurde concept record.

The visual does aural.

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o "The drawings and paintings of Chicago artist Gregory Jacobsen aren't exactly easy to look at: his favorite subject is body horror, and he loves to combine bright, kid-friendly colors with beautifully rendered deformities and mutilations and revolting masses of flesh and hair and membrane. Since 2001 Jacobsen has also had a band, Lovely Little Girls, and it's a total package: challenging, dissonant, ever-changing experimental rock, conceptually linked songs, and ambitious themed stage productions that often involve makeup, prosthetics, partial nudity, and large casts of players. His longtime collaborator, bassist Alex Perkolup (also of Cheer-Accident), writes most of the songs; Jacobsen animates their lyrics with his abject, frenzied singing and grotesque, even violent stage presence. - Monica Kendrick, Chicago Reader

o Lovely Little Girls' crazed crossbreeding of Brechtian narrative menace and Zappa/zuehl theatrics was a bracing rejoinder to just about anything you'd care to name... - Tom Smith of To Live & Shave in LA

o To look at one of Gregory Jacobsen's paintings is to view a world of oozing fluid, hilarious meat, and demented animals. Set that vision to music and you get Lovely Little Girls, the band Jacobsen fronts. LLG walks a path of which the foundation is dada, psychedelics, and Beefheart, one that has been trod by Butthole Surfers, Tragic Mulatto, and Idiot Flesh. - Scott Soriano, Z-Gun zine

o "What makes Lovely Little Girls quite unique is the care for complex arrangements, creating quirky prog-no wave hybrids that are impressive psychodramas of melodic detours and anguished explosions, full of theatrical uneasiness. - Chain D.L.K

credits

released October 8, 2012

LINE UP:
Gregory Jacobsen: vocals, sounds
Alex Perkolup: bass, vocals
Jim Cooper: guitar
Jon Beavo: keyboard
Cory Bengtsen: sax
Mike Hagedorn: trombone
Charlie Werber: drums, vocals
Sacha Mullin: vocals
Carmen Armillas: vocals

Additional vocals on Track 4:
Daniel Knox
L. Wyatt
Aleksandra Tomaszewska

Recorded and Produced by
Todd Rittmann

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