Chainsaw Girl - Chainsaw Girl
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Chainsaw Girl - "Chainsaw Girl"\\xa0 from the 2021 self-released Chainsaw Girl EP.
Portland\\u2019s Chainsaw Girl were brought together with a combination of fate and Yu-Gi-Oh. Guitarists Manny Ruiz and Kei Iguchi met at a conference for the Japanese manga series in 2016 and found their common interests spanned beyond Yu-Gi-Oh and into a deep love for music. Vocalist Cricket Greene was later asked to join after their loud and constant singing could be heard through Iguchi\\u2019s walls. With the rest of the crew found either through Craigslist or mutual friends, their self-described \\u201cBoring Dystopia-core\\u201d band was complete.
While very far from boring, finding a better label for the band is difficult. Pulling from a wide range of influences including Title Fight, Joyce Manor, J-rock bands like Number Girl and Polka Dot Stingray, Bay Area DIY bands such as Pllush and Pardener, as well as Mitski, Hayley Williams, and Caroline Polachek as vocal inspirations, Chainsaw Girl straddle the line somewhere between vulnerable indie rock and harder punk.
Our Song of the Day is the eponymous opening track off their self-titled EP which implies it to be Chainsaw Girl\\u2019s manifesto. \\u201cChainsaw Girl / Never learned to play guitar,\\u201d howls Greene in the opening line. Iguchi describes the song as \\u201can experiment in abstract character development through lyrics.\\u201d Each bandmate wrote their part in separation and brought them together, creating a full and diverse picture of who each bandmate considers the character of Chainsaw Girl to be.
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