Live Review: LISTEN: TV GIRL 'Benny & The Jetts'

If you happen to have a spare 10 minutes, a working set of ears or hearing aid, and an index finger to click the mouse/tap the smartphone, then please continue right this way. San Diego's TV GIRL are criminally underrated even for a band yet to pop out a full length release, though that's all going to change about 21 seconds into 'Benny and the Jetts (Elton John's version had one 't'),  when a backbeat swell the equivalent of The Giant Drop at Dreamworld kick-starts your infatuation with them.

SoCal bros Trung Ngo and Brad Petering make delicious retro-tinged pop out of the odds and ends of yesteryear's forgotten gems. The seamless integration of old and new often brings about confusion as to which is which, but let's face it: in the spirit of some of the best uses of sampling this side of Since I Left You, who really gives a rat's? When the results are this gorgeously sunny, I sure as hell don't.

The real kicker for me is an element that initially got drowned in the sound - the super smart lyrics. A line like "It is what it is and that's all it'll be" is brilliantly simple and stays with you, while the self-referential "One cos you're beautiful/one for your soul/one for the memories/and the melodies I stole" hints at the smartarse nature of its authors.

According to their Twitter, we'll be getting an album/mixtape outta these fellas in the next couple of weeks. Consider 'Benny and the Jetts' (below) your entree.

Words by Brad Davies

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