I’m just getting around to listening to Album by Girls (released on September 22, 2009) and I’ve been enjoying it a quite a bit on my first listens and in particular I’ve been loving “Hellhole Ratrace” which is track #6 and easily the longest song on Album (nearly 7 minutes long.)

It’s a really beautiful heart wrenching song that has a mesmerizing slow burn quality. In fact, it reminds me of the masters of “mesmerizing slow burn” music, Spiritualized (especially the Let It Come Down album.)

I think one of the things that really shows how effective “Hellhole Ratrace” is as a slow burn epic is that it doesn’t seem to be anywhere near as long as it’s 6 minute, 56 second running time to me. Sometimes I even play it again when it’s finished.

This song is actually not very representative of the rest of Album which mostly have more of an upbeat ragged retro pop thing going on. There are quite a few other songs that I think could be standouts too, but it’s this one that has my attention at the moment. I definitely recommend checking it out. You can download it at Amazon MP3 for just 99 cents.