Skinny Girl Diet

***One of the most eagerly anticipated albums in years, SKINNY GIRL DIET's Heavy Flow is already getting regular play on BBC Radio 6 (by Iggy Pop, no less) and the London band’s been featured in just about every music blog/magazine you can imagine. The band won’t even be old enough to drink during their upcoming US tour, and yet DELILAH HOLIDAY, URSULA HOLIDAY and AMELIA CARTER have been doing this for almost six years now. SGD is raw, bleeding, and beautiful, a perfect convergence of Angela Carter and Angela Davis and The Powerpuff Girls. Inspired by punk and grunge and being alive & awake in the 21st century, their debut album—self-released in the UK so they can control the product, released in the US on HHBTM Records. "OK" may be the best song ever written about watching a loved one struggle through depression. And then there’s lead single "Yeti," a song about how society demonizes female sexuality that—in its shifting tempos, its volatility—sounds like no punk song ever made by men. Anyway, they don’t need us to speak for them when they speak so beautifully for themselves.