Y Pants "S/T" LP

Side A: Favorite Sweater, Magnetic Attraction, Beautiful Food Side B: Off The Hook, Luego Fuego, Kung Fu LISTEN "In the late 70s and early 80s everyone had very fluid art identities. One day you were a filmmaker, the next day a musician, and Y Pants was very much a part of it… The lyrics are ironic without being callous, the voices are sultry, the music is repetitive and trance-like… [with] a sense of urgency--like something being driven out." – Kiki Smith Y PANTS was a three-woman New York band: Barbara Ess, Virginia (Verge) Piersol and Gail Vachon, all visual artists. They played in clubs, galleries and performance spaces between 1979 and 1982. They were “as idiosyncratic, edgy, minimal, wry and literate as post-punk no wave got. Furthermore, the fact that these were three ferocious and formidable females was not to be overlooked.” – Wolfgang Staehle, thing.netGail found a toy piano on the street and started jamming with Barbara on the ukulele. When they were invited to play a few w