GTC DEEP CUT: WIFE PATROL Girl Cactus
Wife Patrol Girl Cactus is available on Too Prickly For This World, Apple Music, Tidal
by Walter Price
From their turn-it-up debut LP, ‘Too Prickly For This World‘ (2020,) we go back and revisit a hidden-in-plain-sight punk/riot grrl barbed track, “Girl Cactus”. With raw garage riffs and verses like, “You don’t want me/ This is just your greed, your greed/ And I’m just a trophy/ For private viewing only/ I don’t want any lip/ I’m sick of hearin’ ’bout your mother’s tattoos/ Be sure and tape up that rib/ And here’s some sugar for the horse that threw you…”, will have you twisting and bopping as you crank the volume for another go-round.
As their bio attests, these Indianapolis rocknrollers come from pedigrees of industry know-how, “In 2015, Nicole (bass/vocals), Natasha (drums/vocals), and Greg (guitar/vocals) pooled their collective music experience in performance, promotion, and journalism and wrote a batch of demos – 2016’s self-released Electric Blizzard EP. Wife Patrol then took to the stage, performing throughout the Midwest, including at LadyFest Cincinnati (2017) and the MidWay Music Festival (2017, 2019) in Bloomington, Indiana. By 2017, the band earned recognition for delivering one of the top performances of WFYI’s Small Studio Sessions on Indianapolis’s NPR/PBS syndicated station.” So these not-so-newbies have respectively taken their fandom, and career paths, and crafted killer rock.
If your ever-decreasing attention span will prevent you from getting into the full ‘Too Prickly For This World’, introduce yourself to the need to hear LP with the deep cut, “Girl Cactus”, here at the GTC. Buckle up, buttercups.
WIFE PATROL Girl Cactus
Band photo by Clay Lomneth // Artwork and lyrics via Bandcamp // Bio quotes via wifepatrolband.com
Music by Wife Patrol.
Produced by Wife Patrol and P. David Hazel.
Recorded and mixed by P. David Hazel and Wife Patrol.
Mastered by Margaret Luthar at Welcome to 1979.
Bass, vocals and ukulele by Nicole O’Neal.
Guitars, vocals, keys and auxiliary percussion by Greg O’Neill.
Drums and vocals by Natasha O’Neill.
Keys on “Absolute” by P. David Hazel.
Album photography by Clay Lomneth.
Album design by Derek Dalton
I’m a needle in hay
And nobody’s got a thimble
So leave someone for me
I’m too prickly for this world
Get out of my way
And no thanks for stealing my horseshoe
It’s out of luck, anyway
So here’s some sugar for the nag that threw you