Women

Now available on vinyl, the most played and loved record in Rough Trade at the moment is the debut album by Women. Recorded over 4 months on ghetto blasters and old tape machines in Chad VanGaalen's basement, an outdoor culvert, and a crawl space, this self-titled album is a lo-fi masterpiece cloaked in layers of vibrato and guitar wash.

Sometimes light and spacious, at other times eerie and dense with an ominous weight, the album touches upon Velvet Underground, Swell Maps, or This Heat while not really having any obvious precursors. Noisy and claustrophobic songs smash through junkyard trash brawls while others lift and soar across the landscape of 50's-informed pop.

A contradiction and an enigma, the debut album by Women will find its way onto summertime pool break-in boombox mixes and the turntables of record store devotees.