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Velocity Girl Information
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'Velocity Girl' was an American indie rock band formed in 1989 in College Park, Maryland, although it was generally known as a Washington, DC-area band. While much 1990s rock music featured an abrasive vocal and instrumental style, Velocity Girl's later sound was melodic and typically featured "clean" (non-distorted) electric guitar sounds. Thus, the group's music was closer to a "pop" than a "rock" aesthetic. Initailly however, Velocity Girl was playing with their shoegaze influences and on their first seven inches on slumberland and merge, as well as their first sup pop album "copacetic" they had a big wall-of-sound guitar style. Even then they perfectly blended My Bloody Valentine-like guitars with beautiful melodic vocals.
Like the Blake Babies, a Boston-based band from the same era, the group was fronted by a female singer (Sarah Shannon) and featured both female and male vocals, sometimes simultaneously within a song. In the group's recordings, Shannon's voice had a light, airy quality with a slight vibrato, not a typical timbre for rock vocalists.
Velocity Girl released three recordings on the Sub Pop label and disbanded in 1996.
Personnel
* Archie Moore, guitar/bass/vocals
* Brian Nelson, guitar
* Kelly Riles, guitar/bass
* Sarah Shannon, vocals
* Jim Spellman, drums
* Bridget Cross, vocals (original)
Discography
LPs/CDs
* Velocity Girl (Slumberland Records - No.23 - April 16, 1993)
* Copacetic (Sub Pop - No.196 - 1993 - March 24, 1993)
* Simpatico (Sub Pop - No.247 - June 14, 1994)
* Gilded Stars And Zealous Hearts (Sub Pop - No.340 - June 14, 1994)
7"
* I Don't Care If You Go (Summershine - SHINE 006 - 1990) b/w 'Not At All' and 'I Don't Care If You Go (acoustic version)'
* What Kind Of Heaven Do You Want (Slumberland Records - No.1) 'Clock'
* I Don't Care If You Go (Slumberland Records - No.4 - 1990) b/w 'Always'
* My Forgotten Favorite (Slumberland Records - No.10 - 1991) b/w 'Why Should I Be Nice To You?'
* Velocity Girl/ Chisel (Shute Records - No.8) 'Breaking Lines'
* Velocity Girl/Tsunami (Sub Pop - SP137 - 1992) 'Warm/Crawl'
* Merry Christmas, I Love You on Season's Greetings 7" (Simple Machines - SMR 014 - 1992)
* Your Silent Face (Merge Records - MRG 061 - 1994) b/w 'You're So Good To Me'
* Seven Seas (Heaven Records - HV 13 - 1995) b/w 'Breaking Lines'
* What You Say on Screw 7" comp, Simple Machines
Appearances on compilations
* "Blackzilla (live)" on Pre-Moon Syndrome Post-Summer of Noise
* "My Forgotten Favorite" on One Last Kiss (Spin Art Records - No.1 - 1991)
* "Tales Of Brave Aphrodite" on Fortune Cookie Prize (Simple Machines)
* "My Forgotten Favorite" on Clueless Soundtrack CD (Capitol - 1995))
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