Picking up the mantle of grainy post-punk bands like Zounds, the Yummy Fur, and Wire, Sunderland-based Roxy Girls make fast, short, direct songs high on energy and excitement. The band trimmed their music of all superfluous filler for their seven-song 2020 EP A Wealth of Information, which runs a scant 13 minutes.
Roxy Girls slowly formed out of the teenage explorations of singer/guitarist songwriter Tom Hawick and his friends. After spending some time writing songs in a Velvet Underground-inspired band, Hawick got a surge of punk-informed creative energy and enlisted his ban...