Artist: Pretty Girls Make Graves
Genre(s):
Alternative
Rock: Punk-Rock
Rock
Discography:
Live 10Jan2004@Toronto
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Good Health
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
4 Song - 12 Inch - Vinyl
Year: 2002
Tracks: 4
The New Romance
Year:
Tracks: 12
Named for either the Smiths call or a cable from Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, Seattle, WA's Pretty Girls Make Graves began touring the country solely months after the Murder City Devils, which Derek Fudesco as well played bass in, called it quits. During the summer of 2001, Fudesco started writing songs with friends Andrea Zollo (whom he played with in Death Wish Kids), ex-Bee Hive Vaults members Nathen Johnson and Nick DeWitt, summation Kill Sadie's Jason Clark. Their first release, a self-titled, four-song EP replete of bursts of energy and emotion released on Dim Mak, created sufficiency sake to land them a pip in the AP's "one C Bands You Need to Know in '02." In April 2002, Good Health came out on Lookout! Records. Miming the same energies as the EP, but in nine-spot songs and 27 proceedings, the full-length combined early Fugazi and a bit of Rocket from the Crypt, but made new. Add X-Ray Spex and Avengers influences coupled by backup vocals and a hard-hitting calendar method of birth control section, and it's easy to understand where they're coming from. Zollo resists critics' comparisons to Sleater-Kinney or Bikini Kill, because in fact, Pretty Girls Make Graves sounds nada like either mathematical group. Following the handout of Good Health, the band jumped to Matador, releasing the This Is Our Emergency single in belated 2003 and the full-length New Romance shortly subsequently. The band jell off on tours with the likes of Death Cab for Cutie, Bloc Party, and Franz Ferdinand, and after adding keyboardist Leona Marrs to the lineup, released Élan Vital in early 2006. A year later -- and after a last round of spring touring -- Pretty Girls Make Graves dissolved, as drummer DeWitt deceased and the set did not want to proceed on without him.
