In recent years, female fronted music has suffered immensely, both in popularity and credibilty. It appears that the ideals of the Riot Grrrl are truly dead, and many women have swallowed the lie that the only way for someone with an XX chromosome to become successful in music is to use her body and sex appeal (follwing the examples of Paris Hilton, Rihanna, Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and any number of dull, "sexy" starlets).
It is with great pleasure, then, that I introduce An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump, an all girl trio who are becoming increasingly well-known in London without so much as hinting that they will even think about having sex with anyone in the audience. Even better still, their music is nothing short of mesmerising. So called after an 18th Century oil painting, Experiment (consisting of the enigmatically named C-Bird, D-Bird and X-Bird) play a distorted, dirty mix of garage rock and proto punk, stripped down to its simplest and most primal form. Having played support to established London acts such as KASMs, S.C.U.M and Selfish Cunt and set to unleash their beautiful noise on the continent very soon, An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump are holding their own for now. They are a testament to the fact that it is still possible for ladyfolk to use music and music alone to get a woman where she wants to go, and by my reckoning these ladies have a long, successful road ahead of them.
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