In a time when Google becomes more and more important every day and when a search engine-ranking determines the succeess of a business, it is very refreshing to find two bands that don’t care about that at all.
Two bands with names that are absolutely disadvantageous in terms of SEO. But they are very successful anyway. I am talking about Girls and Boy. Absurd as it is, the names don’t hold what they promise. Girls are two boys and Boy are two girls.
More after the Girls and Boy after the jump
Both bands are very different in terms of their style. Girls are an Indie-Band from San Francisco, sounding like a Punk version of Elvis Costello and the Beach Boys.
Just recently, the band published their second album „Father, Son, Holy Ghost“, which is recommendable, but not as striking as their 2009 debut album. That one is called „Album“. In terms of search engine rankings – can you think of anything worse than a band called „Girls“ with an album called „Album“?
Actually, I got to know this band because of the great band pictures taken by photographer Sandy Kim who we also interviewed once.
The music from Boy is very different to Girls: it is poetic, sensitive Indie Pop that reminds one of Phoenix and Feist.
It is like Songwriter Pop, with songs that deal with new starts and change – it is very compatible to women´s magazines, but it is also just beautiful. Boy are without a doubt one of the most interesting newcomers of this year.
