girlhouse returned recently with the excellent single ‘happy now’, and has followed it up with the equally impressive ‘concussion’. It’s a well put together song that opens with subtle but crunchy electric guitar and an insistent vocal delivery before opening out in the chorus to introduce airy chords and a laid-back hook. “’concussion’ is about a monumentally shit day,” she explains. “My first and favourite car got smashed (it was a bright orange 81 Honda Civic with a stick shift), next thing I knew I was lying on the ground, being harassed by LA firemen while a woman was screaming at me calling me a dumb bitch.” Check out the second ep when it drops on October 1^st, 2021.-Dan Peeke