View basket “A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997: A Companion” has been added to your basket. Floating Now Hard Girls SKU: SPS061V Barcode: 667867908346 13.00 £13.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Specialist Subject Released Date: 7th October 2017 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Engineered By Jack Shirley. Cover artwork by Sacramento-based collage artist Jarred Sorci. Hard Girls (whose name is a reverential nod to the Soft Boys, an early influence on the band) spent several years on the road touring with Say Anything, Modern Baseball, AJJ, and Cymbals Eat Guitars among others before returning to the Atomic Garden studio to record Floating Now with engineer Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Joyce Manor). Their new record doubles down on the bold, introspective post-punk that has become the band’s calling card, while channeling a weird, insistent melodicism not unlike 90’s giants Lou Barlow and Robert Pollard. Alternating vocal duties, guitarist Mike Huguenor’s lyrics are poetic and furious, while bassist Morgan Herrell favors a Bradbury-like style of folksy storytelling, but both cohesively explore themes of mortality, doubt, and the struggle to confront these fears. While the trio’s hometown of San Jose, CA is poised to be the site of a sprawling new Google campus, it is already the poster child for the alienating class-divide of the new tech economy, embodied by soaring real estate prices and sweeping homelessness. In an interview with the AV Club, Huguenor explained that “‘Guadalupe On The Banks Of The Styx’ is a song about a place that was once beautiful—where anyone could find peace for just the cost of crossing the river—but has, in our lifetime, become a place of lost and wandering souls.” On album closer “Running” Herrell asks in heartbreaking fashion, possibly to an average, struggling San Jose resident, or possibly to the area’s tech overlords, “Every day of your life you try to prove it was worth it all to them. Was it worth it? I don’t know, ask me again.” Artist Hard Girls Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Specialist Subject Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Field ’99 Puddle Of Blood Codeine Dreams Camera Echolocation Halfway To The Hearse Guadalupe On The Banks Of The Styx Neurons On The Fritz Herd Dulcet Tones Dizzy Wizard Running Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Sidelong Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Bloodshot | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 28th April 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Sidelong £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Bloodshot SKU: BS256LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 28th April 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View NOFX S&M Airlines Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Epitaph | 1LP Released 14th July 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders NOFX S&M Airlines £25.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Epitaph SKU: 264051 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 14th July 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Womps Our Fertile Forever Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Displaced Records | 1LP Released 10th June 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Womps Our Fertile Forever £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Displaced Records SKU: DPL000011 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th June 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Linkin Park Meteora (20th Anniversary Edition) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Warner Records | 4LP, Box Set Released 7th April 2023 £86.00 - £193.00 Select options Linkin Park Meteora (20th Anniversary Edition) £86.00 - £193.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Warner Records Formats: 4LP, Box Set Released Date: 7th April 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Hunna, The Dare – Indies Exclusive Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | High Time | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 13th July 2018 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hunna, The Dare – Indies Exclusive £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: High Time SKU: 0190296957253 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 13th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Saosin Along The Shadow Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Epitaph | 180g, 1LP Released 20th May 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Saosin Along The Shadow £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Epitaph SKU: 274601 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 20th May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gouge Away Deep Sage Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Deathwish Inc. | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 15th March 2024 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gouge Away Deep Sage £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Deathwish Inc. 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