Daiana Feuer on August 27th, 2015

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Veronica Bianqui‘s debut single, a garage-pop love song to a bad boy, falls sweetly in between girly and gritty. It’s melodic but jangly, fast but not so messy that you can’t enjoy her pretty chops. The chorus will lodge itself in your brain, and the verses contain some quirky gems that are worth savoring. When she sings “I like it rough, and you like it round,” it’s a blink-and-you-missed-it moment of imagining a good butt grab in the sack. Later, she whimsically rhymes “ring on my finger” with “shopping for coffee percolators,” making this a modern love song as we envision her and this dangerous love interest on a romantic trip to Target. “If Love’s A Gun, I’m Better Off Dead” marks Bianqui’s first single as a solo artist, but it ain’t her first rodeo. She has been playing guitar and singing in two very fun acts, Isaac Rother & The Phantoms and The Blank Tapes, with the latter band’s Matt Adams serving as producer on her tunes. The song offers our first taste of what’s to come on her forthcoming EP that will be released by Lolipop Records in the not so distant future.

||| Stream: “If Love’s A Gun, I’m Better Off Dead”

||| Live: Veronica Bianqui performs every Tuesday in September at Harvard & Stone.