Looking into It

For ten years, the All Girl Summer Fun Band has blasted gritty, sunny pop gems out of rainy Portland, Oregon with a fervor, enthusiasm, and stamina that is quintessentially Pacific Northwestern. Their newest album, Looking Into It, follows 2003's 2 (K Records) and is a distilled, concentrated AGSFB. Jen Sbragia (The Softies), Kim Baxter (Cherry Ice Cream Smile), and Kathy Foster (The Thermals, Hutch & Kathy) don't hold back the jams.

Looking Into It is not only a stunning pop album filled with the band's signature crunch-fuzz guitars and dead-on melodic sense, but lyrically, AGSFB bravely confronts issues such as greed, death, getting fired, relationship dynamics, and new love. This is AGSFB at their rawest, brightest, and best - and they know it. The band worked on several of these songs for years, meticulously writing and rewriting until they knew they had accomplished what they set out to do.