Okay, so the above music video is cinematically terrible. But as they used to say back in the days before the Amazon Kindle killed the book: "Don't judge a book by its cover". So don't judge the Sea Pinks (whoever they are) by the gaudily vomit-inducing colours of the aforementioned video.
Instead, sit back and use the Bandcamp widget below to start playing the Youth Is Wasted album (which you can also download, in its entirety, for the generous sum of zero pounds and zero pence):
Now let the jangling guitars wash over you, together with all of their lo-fi annihilation of whatever lyrical ability there might or not be in these songs.
And as you do so, see if you can remind yourself of who on earth the band 'Girls [sic] Names' were. Because apparently, the drummer of that band is the man responsible for this band. Now, I know that by this time you've been won over by the mesmerisingly hypnotic way that this man can croon the same not-quite-audible line over and over again over a surprisingly pleasing commotion of guitar noises. So won over that you are no doubt tripping over yourself trying to do the by-no-means-easy task of sifting through the multitude of websites dedicated to choosing the perfect name for your sweet little newly-born double-X-chromosoned child to find out who the Girls Names are.
But fear not, we have done the hard work for you, and can inform you that the apostrophe-hating Girls Names consist of the rhyming couplet Neil Peel (that's the man we're appreciating now) as well as Cathal Cully and their friend, Claire, and are a Belfast band who released two EPs in 2010 and an album in April 2011. And if you can still bear MySpace then good luck to you.
Anyway. All that was by way of context. There might come a day when the Bandcamper reviews something by Girls Names. But for today it's 6.5/10 for this enjoyably forgettable album.
And before we go, whether you're a youth on whom Youth Is Wasted, or a retiree collecting shells, remember: DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE.
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