About a Girl (album)

About a Girl
Studio album by Winter Gloves
Released March 24, 2009 (2009-03-24)
Recorded January 2008
Genre Indie pop, synthpop
Length 29:22
Label Paper Bag Records
Producer Winter Gloves, Jon Drew
Winter Gloves chronology
Let Me Drive
(2008)		 About a Girl
(2008)		 A Way to Celebrate
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Exclaim! (no rating)[1]
The Gateway (positive)[2]
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About a Girl is a LP album by the Canadian indie pop band Winter Gloves. It was released on March 24, 2009 under the Paper Bag Records label.

The album was primarily recorded in lo-fi by Charles F., using only one microphone and a combination of amped and unplugged instruments. Errant noises were intentionally mixed into songs to achieve "a pleasant dirty sound".[3] Most of the songs fit in the second wave synthpop genre popularized in the early 2000s,[2] although reviews correlate the song structures and instrumentation to the later revival of dance-punk and electronic dance music in general.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Charles F.. 

No. Title Length
1. "Factories"   2:39
2. "Let Me Drive"   2:28
3. "Invisible"   3:00
4. "I Can't Tell You"   3:29
5. "Glass Paperweight"   2:39
6. "Hillside"   3:00
7. "About a Girl"   2:55
8. "Party People"   3:37
9. "The Way to Celebrate"   1:57
10. "Piano 4 Hands"   3:38
Total length:
 29:22

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Langlois, Jill (October 2008). "Winter Gloves: About a Girl". Exclaim.ca. Exclaim! Media Inc.. http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/PopAndRock/winter_gloves-about_girl. Retrieved 2011-07-10. 
  2. ^ a b Stead, Sarah (2008-10-30). "Album Review: Winter Gloves — About a Girl". The Gateway. Gateway Student Journalism Society. http://thegatewayonline.ca/articles/arts-entertainment/volume-xcix-number-16/album-review-winter-gloves-about-a-girl. Retrieved 2009-12-01. 
  3. ^ Langlois, Jill (October 2008). "Conversations: Winter Gloves". Exclaim.ca. Exclaim! Media Inc.. http://exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=120&csid2=946&fid1=30599. Retrieved 2009-12-01. 

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