The first song I ever heard from TV Girl was the title track from their 2011 EP, Benny and the Jetts. I didn't know, at the time, what an appropriate song it was to get introduced to this band. As the story of the song goes, a man is in love with a woman, and one of his most striking memories is her taking off in her car, with an Elton John song playing off into the distance.

This emotional tie to music is a theme that represents itself in most of TV Girl's songs, if not so intimately referenced. Made up of looped samples of '60s soul and bubblegum songs, the music of the Los Angeles-based TV Girl then incorporates hip-hop beats and blissed-out indie pop vocals, creating what amounts to a kind of factory-tested ideal for summer soundtracks. Everything is nostalgic and new with TV Girl, with the result coming out as a neo-futurist ode to the cyclical nature of popular music.

Oh, and it sounds really great.

Read Rev. Adam McKinney's interview with TV Girl in the Music and Culture section.

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