Kevin Bronson on August 3rd, 2012

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No idea why it’s taken me so long to post about the Stripminers. Maybe it’s because, as Brett Anderson is quoted as saying, “All our songs are totally different.” And it’s true, their debut album “Movies” appeals to any number of old-school sensibilities – punk, Americana and garage-rock – paralleling most closely the work of L.A. legends X. Anderson, of course, made her mark in the Donnas, and in the Stripminers she teams up with Paul Stinson of the Radishes, whom she met while working on a Sugar Knives video. The music took shape under the direction of multi-instrumentalist producer Scrote, with helping hands Brett Simons (bass), Chris Bruce (guitar) and DJ Bonebrake (drums), among others. The simmering rocker “Like a Harp” is probably the album’s most straight-ahead offering, if you like straight-ahead. There are any number of ways “Movies” (which came out in March) can work up your sweat, though. Like Anderson says, “If you hate one [song], you’re in luck ”“ because you’ll never hear one like that again.” That said, no idea why it’s taken me so long to post about the Stripminers. My bad.

||| Download: “Like a Harp”

||| Live: The Stripminers perform at 7:15 p.m. Saturday on the Dustbowl Stage at the 3rd New L.A. Folk Fest.

||| Also: Find set times for the New L.A. Folk Fest here.