The murkier the better. That’s the ethos behind Girls in Love, whose 4-song cassette Tomatoes sounds as if it were recorded down the shaft of a glass bowl covered in a Downy dryer sheet. How else to explain the equal attention to sappy pop melodies (“Before, Again”) and stoner classic jams (“I Feel Blue”) as imagined by Times New Viking? It’s an endearing mix of gumption and can-do attitude even if mixed up in a rolling fog. They only managed to crank out 50 of these cardboard sleeves, with the tracklist etched hard-way into the cassette shell. Motivation lasts only so long — oddly the length of these four songs. Now I’m stuck on the couch in the middle of a review with no…..
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