eX-Girl

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So, a quick search suggests that there's been no discussion of this group here yet, which is a shame. They're already listed on the archives thanks to their contribution to a Magma/Christian Vander tribute album (which I'd never heard of and will now have to check out!) so that's surely enough of a reason to at least consider them for a moment.

So, who are they? "All-girl Japanese mentalists" just about sums them up, I think. The only album I've heard in-depth by them is "Back to the Mono Kero" but it's absolutely superb and utterly unclassifiable.

Stylistically, it's all over the place, with bursts of pure avant-rock interspersed with spacey freak-outs, excursions into pure girly pop (yep, there's even a cover of "Pop Muzik" on there) and countless other sounds besides... They're really quite impossible to adequately describe.

Avant/RIO might be as good a place as any to stick them, but I wonder if Eclectic Prog might be a more applicable term? I'm a bit hazy on that subgenre (it was created after I left, I believe) so I don't know whether they're too Japanese, too recent, too anything, for that category.

Official site: http://www.exgirl.jp/

There's no myspace, alas, but youtube throws up a couple of dodgy live videos which might give you some idea of what I'm talking about. Alternatively, PM me and I can fix you up with a sample or two... 