¡°Share the Joy,¡± the 2011 album by Brooklyn trio Vivian Girls, starts off with the distinctive rumble of a drone strike in progress before suddenly veering into a lollygagging eighth-note groove for beginner musicians.
Over the opener, ¡°The Other Girls,¡± drifts Cassie Ramone¡¯s pre-emptive warning: ¡°I don¡¯t want to be like the other girls¡± ¡ª sung in a sly, dislocated mid-Atlantic drawl that¡¯s part-Catherine Earnshaw of ¡°Wuthering Heights,¡± part-Bushwick caterwaul. It¡¯s in that lyric that Ramone (whose real name is Cassie Gryzmkowski) appears to be portending a future of going it alone, and sure enough the band split in January 2014.
Vivian Girls were born from a special gang of girlfriends that included Ramone, Katy Goodman and Ali Koehler. Nearly as much has been written about their camaraderie ¡ª sisterly, sardonic and often delivered in a sweaty trifecta of near-matching bangs ¡ª as their breakup, when the group decided to forego making music together, but without the drawn-out hysterics of a public disavowing.
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