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Former member of sex-obsessed trash pop group Gravy Train!!!! Seth Bogart describes his band as “a girl group fronted by a gay guy who’s trying to sound like a girl.” This is his superb first studio album, the follow-up to 2009’s Gay Singles, a collection of self-recorded gay-teenager-in-love punk rock songs that, while good, came off as a comedy album due to Bogart’s relentless campy wit.
Too Young To Be In Love leans less heavily on pervy wisecracks, with fantastic results. And the all-female band convincingly recreates the 60s sounds of juvenile delinquent girl groups like the Shangri-La’s and the Ronettes. Featured prominently are the booming pipes of Shannon Shaw of Shannon and the Clams, who often threatens to steal the show.
Top track: The Curse Of Being Young
