Top 20 Releases of 2013: No.4 – Buddy Girl and Mechanic – Buddy Girl and Mechanic

I’ve already written so much about this band over the past couple of years that there’s really very little else I can add. This album came out at the beginning of 2013 and its seven tracks (three of which are available to listen on the band’s Bandcamp and Soundcloud pages) kept bringing my back over and over again. It’s breathy, bluesy and ambient, but with a motorik driving power that underlies it and gives propulsive force that prevents it from getting bogged down in the dreamy web it weaves. More recently the band made a cameo appearance in and contributed to the soundtrack of the Zellner Brothers’ forthcoming film Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter, which will hopefully see them garner a wider following, and it’s easy to see how the Herzog-influenced, Austin-based filmmakers would be attracted to BGM’s spacious, dreamlike combination of intensely physical blues and out-of-this-world kosmische.