Beat Fräuleins

Various Artists, “Beat Fräuleins” (Grosse Freiheit, 2012)
Long-overdue comp of German girl-beat-pop from the mid to late ‘60s. This follows the “yé-yé” stylistic template the French created, but with a distinct national twist: there’s something simultaneously sour, tender, frosty and a bit mysterious here that makes me think of Nico, if she was a Beatles-obsessed teenybopper.
Try 5, 10, 13, 17.
7/26/12