Girl Tears

The Orange County punk trio Girl Tears play exceedingly brief songs, most less than one minute long, and throw plenty of darkness into their three-chord attack. Guitarist/vocalist Kam Andresen, bassist Tristan Ellis, and drummer Sal Gabriel were all playing in the band Sweet Valley Slumber Party when they decided they wanted to do something more aggressive and punk. They released their first album, Tension, on Lolipop Records and it caught the ear of Captured Tracks honcho Mike Sniper, who signed the band to CT offshoot label Sinderlyn and re-released the record in September o...