Jeanines - How Long Can It LastOver the course of nearly a decade making music, Alicia Jeanine and Jed Smith have charted a distinctive course through the history of pop, evoking influences as varied as the 60s folk of early Fairport Convention and Vashti Bunyan, the sunshine pop of Margo Guryan and Laura Nyro, and indiepop touchstones like Dear Nora, Marine Girls and Dolly Mixture. Their new album, How Long Can It Last, finds Jeanines grappling with themes of personal upheaval and

‘TSOD’

the spiky hair

The album reveals itself much like a coming of age novel about the breaking apart of girlhood and rebuilding of a young woman

‘Good Bad Not Evil’ is a coming-of-age garage rock classic record

and all the thorny complications that come with living in it

“…Don’t stir anything…”

joined by 27 early acoustic demos and 50 session takes

Columbia Records proudly release the much anticipated

alongside a revolving cast of drummers

Elsewhere on the record

playing up and down the West Coast and even blowingåÊSex Pistols off the stage at the latter‰۪s final performance

It’s light ’n’ breezy