Seraphina Lotkhamnga on August 10th, 2011

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San Francisco’s Girls have returned with a new single to follow up their beloved (and apathetically titled) album, “Album,” and it’s a slow-burning, seven-minute track in which guitars roar instead of toying with the simple melodies that characterized their debut. Although the band’s melancholy had always been endearing, especially with Christopher Owen’s heart-wrenching and forlorn vocals, “Vomit” suggests a wider vision for their sophomore record, “Father, Son, Holy Ghost” (out Sept. 13 via True Panther). The theme sounds the same so far, with loneliness being at the forefront of it all, but their sonic expansion in this new track is remarkable in comparison to previous fan favorites such as “Hellhole Ratrace.” Whether Girls meant to acquire the “sad bastard music” label without going twee in the past, compositions such as this one may be what catapults them past their quirkiness, NSFW videos and Bay Area-niche. The last-half of “Vomit” is an intense union of gospel vocals, organ and heavy drumming, and the tail-end is also the first time we see Owens and band member Chet “JR” White in the music video. The rest is a whole lot of Mustang. If their music has matured, we suppose supporting car lust instead of sporting naked girls and boys can be considered as a step forward in this Austin Rhodes-directed clip.

||| Download: “Vomit”

||| Live: Girls play Sept. 3 at L.A. Historic State Park as part of FYF Fest.