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  • grrrr cvrGrrrr! – Girl Monstar (Vicious Kitten)

    The groove is the thing on “Grrrr!!” - and so it should be on an album with a name approximating one of the many Best Of collections by the Stones. Drummer Susan Shaw (nee Sue Wold,of The Wraylettes, The Wet Ones, The Exotics and Plastic Section)and  Janene Abbott lay down smooth ‘n’ slinky rhythms, and the rest follows.

    So to the review but first, the backstory: Girl Monstar existed in Australia a very different time. Home base Melbourne was artier than its rawer cousin Sydney but bands like Girl Monstar were spanning both. The Big Day Out festival juggernaut emerged at the tail end of their run and pushed the underground onto a different level.