VINYL FORMAT. Comes with CD version of the album! Those Darlins are a pop group, if they are any one thing, which doesn't mean anybody with ears can't hear the country and rock 'n' roll in their sound and stance. Or maybe this trio of young women (early twenties, although no one's telling exactly), who live a long stone's throw from Nashville, Tennessee in the college town of Murfreesboro, are punks straight out of London or Cleveland, 1977.

And after seducing live audiences nationwide supporting acts as various as Dan Auerbach, Boss Hog, Wanda Jackson, Ida Maria and Deer Tick, Those Darlins quickly became the next "it" Band at this year's South by Southwest festival. This is their first full-length and their self-titled debut.

Thos Darlins incorporates everything that has made the trio a fresh force. "Red Light Love," the first single, is about not losing the simplest joys of being in love, complete with distorted guitars and a classic rockin' bass line. Their version of A.P. Carter's "Cannonball Blues" throws in backwards guitars straight out of the Beatles' blue period, while "DUI or Die" is as catchy as any Nick Lowe tune: "Better find a boy to take you home for the night," they suggest to female drinkers everywhere as an alternate source of trouble.

To capture their rowdy, often funny, empowering collection, These Darlins left Southern climes to record with producer Jeff Curtin, whose credits include Vampire weekend's debut, at Brooklyn's Treefort Studios and home studio 222 (also the site of Pitchfork TV's "Juan's Basement"). The forthcoming album is grounded in the old-time country they started out emulating, but its public face is pop with interludes, psychedelic guitars, and sly tales of triumph. Part grit, part glamor, they've aware of image and flash, of the need for speed and good-humored insurgency. So raise a glass with them, and celebrate an eponymous debut that ensures this singles-generation is nto ready to toss away the album concept.