Brooklyn Vegan Premieres The Casket Girls "Secular Love"

"This is about as close to a Top 40 record as Graveface Records is ever gonna get, albeit one that's spiked with strychnine and bittersweet melodies." - eMusic

"Think '60s girl group, if they wore all-black and performed at seances." - Nylon

Brooklyn Vegan premiered an MP3 download of "Secular Love" from The Casket Girls sophomore album, True Love Kills The Fairy Tale out now on Graveface Records. The Casket Girls are currently on tour headlining the Graveface Road Show which features label mates Dott, Dreamend and The Stargazer Lillies. Ticket links for The Graveface Roadshow are available here. The Casket Girls just revealed their performance schedule for this year's Austin's SXSW Music Festival. All shows and set times are listed below. 

So many pieces of Savannah, GA three-piece The Casket Girls seemed to happen by accident. From their beginning - when electronic sound-shaper Ryan Graveface (Graveface Records, Dreamend, Black Moth Super Rainbow) found sisters Phaedra and Elsa Greene under a tree in one of Savannah's many squares, playing Autoharp and singing bizarre songs - to the night they composed their sophomore album, True Love Kills the Fairy Tale, under circumstances that fall somewhere between séance and dream state, nearly everything about The Casket Girls seems to have been inspired by some kind of spooky happenstance. But then again, the Greene sisters don't believe in accidents.

"I dropped off a shit ton of songs to the girls to work on one night," Graveface says of the genesis ofTrue Love, the follow up to Casket Girls' critically acclaimed 2012 debut. "I went back to check on their progress, because they weren't answering their phones. I don't know if they dropped acid or what, but I walked in and Elsa was sobbing and reciting poetry while Phaedra was just staring straight ahead writing it all down, like catatonic. The next day they dropped off a CD and said, 'We don't even know what's on this. You can throw it in the garbage if you want.' I sat down and listened all the way through and cried. I was like, 'Holy shit! They actually wrote a record like that!' I booked studio time and had them re-record every note just as it was on the demo. They really didn't remember any of it.  Had to learn the songs as if someone else had written them entirely. Very bizarre."

Phaedra and Elsa had filled the disc with lilting, almost whimsical melodies about chemical hazes and love gone sour like a couple of fucked up Shangri-las, to which Graveface added a bevy of grinding, multi-dimensional psych-rock keys that will be familiar to anyone with a Graveface LP in their collection. The title track speaks like an unknown voice in a lucid dream - perhaps the one that conveyed these songs through the veil in the first place -beckoning, "True love kills the fairy tale... until heart and lungs fail."  It's this twisted and comforting charm, which set in motion the Graveface-Greene love affair in the first place, that relieves us from fear.

The Casket Girls have gained momentum and a substantial cult following due to the unflagging catchiness of their songwriting and the compelling development of their live stage show. They spent the last year and a half touring in support of BMSR and The Faint before growing into headliners in their own right. Last year, they released a self-titled EP on Record Store Day and a "cassingle" on cassette store day.

  

03.05 - Santa Cruz, CA @ The Crepe Place *

03.06 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo *
03.07 - San Diego, CA @ The Hideout *
03.09 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom #

03.11 - Austin, TX @ Parish Underground (5pm - Audiofemme Day Show)

03.12 - Austin, TX @ Half Step (10pm - FrenchKiss Label Group Showcase)
03.13 - Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas (4:15pm - Austin Psych Fest presents Levitation Austin)   

03.14 - Austin, TX @ Cheer Up Charlies (noon - Flowerbooking Day Party)   

03.14 - Austin, TX @ Home Slice Pizza (2:40pm - Music By The Slice) 

03.14 - Austin, TX @ TenOak (1am - Graveface Showcase RSVP)
03.15 - Austin, TX @ Tillery Park (5:15pm Graveface Official Mega Day Showcase RSVP)

03.17 - New Orleans, LA @ The Circle Bar *

03.18 - Pensacola, FL @ The Handlebar *

03.19 - Tampa, FL @ Crowbar *

03.20 - Miami, FL @ Churchills *
03.21 - Orlando, FL @ Will's Pub *

03.22 - Savannah, GA @ Dollhouse (Graveface Fest 2) 

* Graveface Roadshow 

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