girlsbeinggirls - girlsbeinggirls

$50.00

Mathtober is still kicking! Its always such a treat when I get to do a BRAND NEW band to debut a BRAND NEW ALBUM that is created with WV in mind and designed around being released in this way. An honor. This one maybe even more cool than usual just given what type of materiel it is, and everything that has gone in to it here. I think we have the the PSYCHO-FRAME equalivent of math on our hands here. What happens when a bunch of *not children* make an earnest, real effort to make some sass revival? You have girlsbeinggirls! It’s here and its insane! Maybe go give the debut single a listen first (its up now) an then come back and listen to me pontificate for an hour!

The whole aesthetic of this thing and the context of its release is what makes it so impactful. We’ve had no shortage of phoned-in Low effort cybergrind. An abundance of slapdash throwaway joke projects that people who were 5 years old when Myspace was around think is “awesome”. I think GBG is the concerted effort of two elder scenesters to create somethign nostalgic and also so so new. It’s not worship - its elevated. There’s a huge difference between P-F and like, GOG. Both are “revival deathcore” but they approach it in very different ways. GBG leans in to its roots and takes the tropes and reimagines them for a modern context. From a production standpoint this is the most blown out and evil sounding thing I’ve ever heard. NO ONE does mix/master like this besides Hordeman, and I really do think he’s ahead of the curve and shares a lot of production preference sensibilities with me. Isn’t afraid to take a risk. Downpour did an insane job on this - its literally evil 2 O’Clock Girlfriend. The production is HUGE and it hits those crazy cyber elements at times, but never uncanny valley territory.

Honestly the biggest thing that contextualizes and sets this off is the album art. We started with the worlds most insane logo from Kai over at Lab.13 and married that to a ton of sketched elements from Caleb Butcher. The goal was to create these little vignettes that could be used all throughout the packaging that tied in with the logo. We took all of that then and married it to the INSANE panels that Elie Atef was able to create. Its a style that doesn’t quote match the genre, but it gives it so much gravitas I think. Obsessed with how this turned out, and of course who am I to say no to a hand-done portrait for album art lmao. Kai really brought the full layout home as well.

This one time pressing is presented across 350 copies:

50 sigsbeingsigs (Wax Vessel Signature)

50 2 liter sig beater (Wax Vessel Signature)

50 like a sig stuck in tape, red wine from a grape (Wax Vessel Signature)

50 you’re gonna die clown (Wax Vessel Signature)

50 feeling down? Call 1-800-GOTSIG (Wax Vessel Signature) *BAND VARIANT*

100 freak out (180g Natural PVC)

All of this housed in:

1.5x thickness Matte single pocket jackets

Double sided gatefold matte full color insert

Black polylined innersleeves

Gold foil numbering

Stuffed into polybags

Hype Sticker’d

Custom WV Mailers

Matching WV Album art sticker

So thats my pitch! The future of music and yes the stakes are that high I think! Perhaps one of the greats debuts from a new band in WV history, who is to say! A huge thanks to Daniel Del from HARM for trusting me with this project. You’ll be seeing him and Thom in the future more as well, haha. Grab a piece of future scene history before its gone!

This is a PREORDER and will ship in 2026. You know how it goes!