The Group Sound // Secret Goilfriend

In 1966 The Beatles made their first trip to Japan and almost immediately began influencing the types of new bands being formed in that area. And much like everywhere else in the world the Fab Four forever influenced all subsequent modern rock music from that region as well. (For further listening see: The Tigers, The Carnabeats, and The Spiders).

"Lock music is very popular...Like Rady Jane and Yerrow Submaline... But Japanese people cannot pronounce Lock n Lorr, so we call it, 'Group Sounds.'"

— Rolling Stone, March 1, 1969

In these the aughts Matthew Israelson of Brazilian Money has traded his drum kit for a six-string and began putting his own spin on the genre. His band, appropriately enough just called The Group Sound, manufacture an infectious brand of jangle-pop of their own, incorporating boy/girl vocals, '60s garage, '50s doo wop, and reverb-drenched surf guitars.



MP3: The Group Sound - Secret Goilfriend

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