Fungi Girls

Three teenagers from a small suburban town outside of Dallas, Texas, Fungi Girls started earning national attention for their surf-fused breed of detached garage punk long before any of them were old enough to drive themselves to their own shows. Made up of bassist Deryck Barrera, guitarist/lead vocalist Jacob Bruce, and drummer/sometimes singer Skylar Salinas, the trio formed in the summer of 2008, inspired by the lo-fi scuzz-pop of Times New Viking and Psychedelic Horseshit. Their 2011 release, Some Easy Magic, found them moving away from the noisy, lo-fi garage pop of earlier work and toward a more refined, surf-garage hybrid, leaning more toward moody instrumental tension than energetic attacks of teenage noise. ~ Fred Thomas