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''Father, Son, Holy Ghost'' is the second and final studio album by San Francisco rock band Girls, released September 13, 2011 on True Panther Sounds in the United States, September 12, 2011 on Fantasytrashcan/Turnstile in Europe, September 7, 2011 in Japan on Fantasytrashcan/Turnstile and September 14 in Mexico on Arts & Crafts México.〔(GIRLS: Father, Son, Holy Ghost 9.13.11 ). True Panther Sounds. 7 July 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2011.〕〔(Girls set to release Father, Son, Holy Ghost on Sept. 12, 2011 ). Turnstile. 7 July 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2011.〕〔(ACMX040 ). Arts & Crafts México. Retrieved 31 August 2011.〕 Three singles were released from the album; "Vomit", "Honey Bunny" and "My Ma", the latter of which was released exclusively on vinyl with a limited 1000 copies in print.〔 The album peaked at #37 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and received critical acclaim upon its release.〔〔 A significant departure from the band's previous work, ''Father, Son, Holy Ghost'' elaborated with lavish production, gospel choirs and a more varied instrumentation that resulted in a sound that spanned various genres such as surf rock, folk, soul, hard rock, and even progressive rock. Unlike the group's debut ''Album'', it was not exclusively produced by the band themselves but was a collaboration with veteran engineer Doug Boehm. The album's sound and composition style was noted to be part of a trend of modern indie revivalism artists who reach back decades into the past for inspiration, with songs such as "Honey Bunny", "Love Like a River" and lead single "Vomit" in particular being heavily influenced by music from the 1960s and 1970s.〔〔〔 Of the album's 'old' style of production and the evolution of the band's sound, one critic noted "(''Father, Son, Holy Ghost'') eschews ''Albums ramshackle scrappiness for the classic-rock-radio sophistication of Billy Preston-era Beatles and early-70s Pink Floyd."〔 The album was recognized as one of The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far by Pitchfork Media in August 2014. ==Background and recording== Girls came to prominence in independent music circles with the release of their first single "Hellhole Ratrace" in 2008, and then came to the attention of critics with the release of their debut album ''Album'' in 2009. ''Album'' was praised as one of the best records of the year, with critics lauding the emotional nuance and honesty of frontman Christopher Owens' songwriting, and the old-fashioned grittiness of the album's sound.〔 The band released the ''Broken Dreams Club'' EP in 2010, as a way of "giving thanks to their listeners" who had supported them from the beginning.〔Bevan, David. (Girls: Broken Dreams Club EP ). Pitchfork Media. 18 November 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2011.〕 The EP featured progressive tracks such as "Carolina", and several critics noted how the group's sound was evolving dramatically to a style that would come to define many of the tracks on ''Father, Son, Holy Ghost''.〔Lewis, Sam. (Girls - Broken Dreams Club ). Drowned in Sound. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2011.〕 In an interview with ''Spin'', Owens said the album's title was chosen to reflect the music's spiritual quality and explained that it was referred to as "Record 3" on the album cover to reflect the importance of ''Broken Dreams Club'' as the band's second record, despite not being a full-length album. According to Owens, it was "simply a nod (to the EP), which was a big statement".〔〔(Girls announce new album ). Positive Destruction. 7 July 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2013.〕 For the recording of ''Father, Son, Holy Ghost'', Girls sought out drummer Darren Weiss, keyboardist Dan Eisenberg and guitarist John Anderson, all of whom became touring members for the group except Anderson, who quit just before the tour commenced.〔 The band also utilized a trio of gospel singers for the first time, a group of pros who had worked with Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. They would go on to tour with the group as well. This was a significant contrast to the recording of ''Album'', which was solely a collaboration between Owens and his friend Chet "JR" White, with Owens playing most of the instruments and White handling most of the production duties. It was predominantly recorded in San Francisco's Golden Gate Studios and Los Angeles' The Sound Factory, with Doug Boehm, who had worked with K.D. Lang and Elliott Smith, producing the album in collaboration with the band themselves.〔〔Carroll, Jim. (Forget the cults and drugs, Girls just wanna have fun ). The Irish Times. 29 August 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2011.〕 Although an immaculately recorded finished product, with one critic noting that "the album sounds 'old' simply because it sounds so incredibly good", it was a troublesome and labored effort to record, with Boehm noting "It wasn't an easy record to make. Nobody knew their parts."〔〔Ryzik, Melena. (A Time to Go Solo, at Least Onstage ). New York Times. 9 January 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2013.〕 The Golden Gate studio was noted to be a "cavernnous basement" setting that was devoid of most of the traditional facilities of modern recording studios. White recalled the set-up as being unothodox and challenging; "I remember I walked in the space and the live room was nothing more than just a concrete basement of this office building. There was something about this room that wasn’t a tuned recording studio live room."〔http://www.americansongwriter.com/2011/09/recording-father-son-holy-ghost-a-qa-with-girls-jr-white/〕 At one stage, when the band found the outside noise and flushing toiles from the above levels of the building too intrusive, they rigged a vocal booth out of Marshall Amp stacks that were lying around the studio, belonging to Boehm - an excessive gear collector.〔 According to White; "He had an amp collection that was bordering on a real gear addiction. You could fill a 20×20 room to the top. It was an insane amount of stuff."〔 In a rare interview in the aftermath of Girls' breakup, White revealed that his relationship with Owens during the recording process was difficult, with the two barely on speaking terms. "While we were making the album - he’s my best friend - but we weren’t talking, and I still don’t really know why. To me, I think maybe something happened that he feels uncomfortable talking about, but really, I’ll never know." White felt that from the very start of the recording sessions he could foresee the end of Girls as a band; his relationship with Owens only a fraction of what it was at the time of the first album. "The basic idea was that the band was built around camaraderie and friendship, for me at least. At some point the band felt like, as stupid as it sounds, “a band of brothers.” It felt like more than a band. So, when it became a band, it became less interesting and just a failure of our relationship. That was the whole band, him and I, so the failure of one meant the failure of both."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Father, Son, Holy Ghost (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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