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CMU Approved
Approved: Typical Girls
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 2 March 2011
Ilirjana Alushaj can often be found (when she’s not writing or modeling) fronting New York art rockers Apache Beat, or singing with YouTube-based covers band Girl Crisis, alongside members of Charlift, Class Actress, Au Revoir Simone and others. Typical Girls, however, is her solo project.
Her debut single under the moniker, ‘Our Real Is Real’, recorded with the help of CFCF, was released in January through The Pop Manifesto, the spin-off label from her online magazine of the same name. With swirling guitar and a Kim Deal-esque bassline, Alushaj drenches her vocals in reverb. And while it’s difficult to judge a project on one song, past form and the number of times I’ve returned to that one song suggest that Typical Girls is something worth keeping one eye on.
