TV Girl (US)
Sunday, 7 December 2025
Combining lo-fi indie-pop with earworm samples largely plundered from forgotten 1960s musical gems, San Diego trio TV Girl have an infectiously hypnotic sound that recalls bands like Beach House and Cigarettes After Sex as well as mellifluous musical magpies like The Avalanches and The Go! Team. Since debuting with the 2014 album ‘French Exit’, which spawned the huge hit ‘Lovers Rock’ (1.3 billion Spotify plays and counting), the band have gone from strength to strength, and will make their Hong Kong debut at Clockenflap on the back of ‘Fauxllennium’, their recent collaboration with electropop innovator George Clanton.
驚唔驚喜？意唔意外？我哋都好開心有得喺香港睇 TV Girl 啊！
現時由 Brad Petering 單核運作，頭三張EP時期嘅 TV Girl 可謂獨立樂迷間嘅秘寶珍藏，其時亞洲只能透過台北貝多熊，日本Jet Set等少量唱片店入手佢哋黑膠，但〈It’s Not Something〉、〈She Smokes in Bed〉等單曲混合大量取樣去玩復古電味indie pop，手法新鮮旋律上腦，漸漸儲落一堆固定fans。
2014年 TV Girl 推出首張大碟《French Exit》收錄佢最具代表性金曲〈Lovers Rock〉，講音樂文青借聽黑膠搞搞震，劇情浪漫而曳曳，確立電視女孩甜蜜鬼馬少鹹衰衰格嘅風格；此後 Petering 陸續交出不准色色嘅〈Not Allowed〉、錯摸愛情打樁機嘅〈7 Days Til Sunday〉等等人氣大碟單曲，講真好似幾啱MLA fans聽。
由於演算法作動，近五六年TV Girl嘅樂迷基數迎來早就要有嘅爆炸性成長，Spotify上累積幾十億串流點播，新碟又好重印又好週邊又好通通長期賣斷市，更成為各大音樂節常客。走紅後嘅 TV Girl一邊跑tour一邊依然保持穩定產量，計埋分支的話好似仲多產過初出道嗰時：化名BLOODbath64嘅vapourwave習作、借Madison Acid之名用auto tune飾演女聲rapper嘅《Purple Hearts Club Band》、去年與另一非典型流行尖子 George Clanton 推出合作大碟《Fauxllennium》等等，曲風迴異一樣好聽。
動作多多嘅TV Girl終於畀我哋請到嚟今年 Clockenflap，喺舞台上作嘅香港現場「首播」 ！