The music on Tom Serner’s debut LP as Sindy HORROR HEAD—like that on many of the records released by his label PNKSLM—manages to incorporate influences from nearly every corner of mainstream-dodging rock spanning the ’90s, and the resulting sound is as jarringly messy as that description sounds. “EDGE-GIRL,” the latest single from this project, sounds like a plain-white shirt after it’s been through the wash and had the colors of cult figures like Elliott Smith, Daniel Johnston, Radiohead, and MBV bleed onto it.
Yet the explicit influences on the song are based more ’90s TV. “A lot of the songs are just, you know, attempts to put kind of abstract, really big things into the few-word format of a song,” he shares of the record’s tracks. “I’ve been collecting images and text continuously, so I think I subconsciously wrote for characters. I’ve tried a sort of ready-made approach, some of the lyrics are just a mash-up of morbid one-liners from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ‘EDGE-GIRL’ is loosely based on Faith, Buffy’s bad girl Slayer frenemy.”
You can hear that warped dream-pop tune below. Pre-order HORROR HEAD here.
