Glasgow-based indie pop outfit Golden Grrrls formed toward the end of the 2000s when several friends first treated music-making as an idle bedroom diversion, though the project soon evolved into a fully operational group. Its original lineup featured Ruari MacLean handling guitar and lead vocals alongside keyboardist Kate Manning, multi-instrumentalist Lorna Gilfedder, and Eilidh Rodgers on drums and lead vocals. The trio’s style drew from the fuzzy indie-pop approach long associated with other Glasgow acts, reaching back to the 1980s and 1990s work of the Vaselines and the Pastels while also nodding to more recent local songwriters such as Veronica Falls. Band members settled on the name Golden Grrrls simply because they found it amusing and deliberately foolish. Local gigs followed, and in February 2011 the group issued a series of small-run 7-inch singles and cassettes. As visibility increased, the band shared stages with Sea Lions and pressed a split 7-inch specifically for those dates. After Manning and Gilfedder departed, Rachel Aggs arrived on second guitar and vocals, trimming the ensemble to a trio and steering its songwriting toward tighter, hook-driven arrangements in which all three voices interlock across brief, tuneful tracks. The self-titled debut LP appeared in early 2013 through Slumberland in the United States and Nightschool in the United Kingdom, timed with a support tour alongside Veronica Falls.
