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Album brought Girls all the accolades, now it’s on to the next one. From the band’s show at New Orleans’s One Eyed Jack’s last night comes this vid of the presumably new tune “Honey Bunny,” filmed during the encore by reader Marc Sketcher. Christopher delivers this mostly solo, with some supplemental tambourine, so we have a bit to go before it’s fully developed. Some things about “Honey Bunny” that won’t surprise you, though: it’s rooted in that late ’50s/early’60s guitar pop vibe, its melody is a larval earworm just about ready to stick in yr brain for days, and it’s about, yep, girls. He’s singing “I know you’re out there, you might be right around the corner / And you’ll be the only girl that I love,” delivered in that sorta yearning Costello-styled quaver that makes you wonder if he even believes what he’s saying but glad that he’s saying it anyway.

Thanks for sending, Marc.

Comments (8)
  1. Anonymous  |   Posted on Feb 3rd, 2010

    They played this in December in LA at the Troubadour

  2. they played 3 new ones in Portland in November. First one was “Nobody’s Business” which I think was a b-side to one of the singles (or will be). The chorus of one of the others was “It’s getting cold again” and the last was about being in love with a boy who’s in love with a girl. Any ideas what these two are? Maybe just covers…

    • nate  |   Posted on Feb 3rd, 2010

      KJK – the one about a boy could be the gorgeous “Oh Boy” which is a b-side to the “Laura” single. starts with “tears on my telephone / salt in my mouth” ends with “i love you so much oh boy / i wish i was you.” sounds like the Twin Peaks soundtrack. i’m obsessed with this song.

  3. steve  |   Posted on Feb 3rd, 2010

    Girls blow.

  4. john  |   Posted on Feb 3rd, 2010

    @Steve if you should be so lucky

  5. VIncent Gallo  |   Posted on Feb 3rd, 2010

    yawn.

  6. jbean  |   Posted on Feb 4th, 2010

    this is boring and bad….you can tell b/c everyone there is just talking over it

  7. Adam Swanson  |   Posted on Feb 22nd, 2010

    Christopher played an entire solo acoustic set at their Swedish American Music Hall show in SF months ago, he played this song, “Oh Boy” and a bunch of other non-album tracks…

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