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Hunx And His Punx – Too Young To Be In Love
Hardly Art

“I feel like I’m a girl group,” Hunx revealed in a recent interview. His music is a scuzzier, more garage-infused version of female girl group music from a more innocent age. With an all-female backing band and liberal use of signifying tropes like the old reliable ‘Be My Baby’ drumbeat, they re-weave Letterman jacket and hair band romances into leather jacket and leopard-spotted legging romances. It works. Hunx And His Punx actually fit really well into the US west coast lo-fi scene despite literally being hairdresser music (they run a salon). With wantonly naïve lyrics on tracks like ‘My Boyfriend’s Coming Back’ and lovely off-key oohs on almost everything, they do a pretty good job of reconstructing the pieces of a nostalgic genre into something it never really was. Karl McDonald

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KEY TRACKS: ‘MY BOYFRIEND’S COMING BACK’, ‘BLOW ME AWAY’, ‘LOVERS LANE’.
SEE ALSO: NOBUNNY, GIRLS, THE SHANGRI-LAS.

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