in which teen girl scientist monthly goes on safari

so, a lot of my favorite bands have been around awhile, and have the age and experience to back up their awesomeness - but there's something to be said for the exuberance that youth can bring. oftentimes musically unrestrained and joyful, young bands can have exciting sounds that oftentimes act like a dash of hot sauce into an otherwise bland musical atmosphere.

i say this because i've recently had a listen to a very young band - teen girl scientist monthly. this group, made up of six members, first performed together in august 2010. since then, they've been touring the new york club circuit as well as putting out both a demo and official ep.



don't mistake all of this for slapdash crap music, though. teen girl scientist monthly (which, can i just say, is a delightfully quirky and bizarre name?) works as a new, yet well-functioning machine. Choral boy-girl singing, bouncy-loud beats, hyper guitar lines and punk flavorings make for some crazy fun sounds.

safari, the single off of their ep pioneer ghost, is a perfect example of this. morgan lynch's throaty vocals are slyly pitch perfect against matt berger's back-up accompaniments, but honestly, the entire song just sounds like a fricking great time. like the band, themselves, is having the time of their lives playing it. and that, peeps, makes this song irresistible.

have a listen. then try to tell me you didn't want to get up and dance like you do when you think no one is watching.

what’s all the hurry?
where’s all the time?
what was i learning?
i don’t need it

find my a forest
fetch me the sky
where was my worry?
i don’t need it

i trade my lessons for a mend
and lay my pressures to the fence
i’ll pay my debtors from the end
cause hell this ain’t the end

let’s go on safari
let’s see what we find
there’s no need to hurry
i don’t mind it

we’ve only our story
we’ve no need for time
if they find it boring
i don’t mind it

i wave my presence of pretense
and save my questions for the end
i trade my obsession of a sense
the sense has met it’s end

and oh i grew too fast
oh where was my heart?
and i wanted death
to quit a bleeding spark
so back to the strain
of the far off run
and i will chew my reign
because i am not done

let’s go where the dark is
let’s go where we fear
we’ll try where the heart is
i can find it

we’ll dig up the bone yard
we’ll burn what we see
we’ll shoot the horizon
i can find it

i wave my presence of pretense
and save my questions for the end
i trade my obsession of a sense
the sense has met it’s end

and oh i grew too fast
oh where was my heart?
and i wanted death
to quit a bleeding spark
so back to the strain
of the far off run
and i will chew my reign
because i am not done

it’s not like you lost a friend
it’s not like you lost a brother
it’s not like you lost your arm
it’s only the end of the start

and oh i grew too fast
oh where was my heart?
and i wanted death
to quit a bleeding spark
so back to the strain
of the far off run
and i will chew my reign
because i am not done

(mp3) safari by teen girl scientist monthly

check out the video - so very cool in that it's shown in six split-screen perspectives:

"Safari" - Teen Girl Scientist Monthly from Michael Raynes on Vimeo.

go HERE to stream/buy pioneer ghost, the album safari is off of.