The Underbites Share “Good Girl” Single & Announce New EP “Four Songs About Girls”

If the Ramones had covered The Sweet‘s rendition of a Nick Lowe song, but with Fat Mike or Brett Gurewitz producing, you might get something like Good Girl. As you’ll hear, The Underbites draw from multiple eras of punk and beyond with an uncanny fluency. They also spike their social critiques with a crackling sense of wit that has a way of lingering in your thoughts long after the dust settles on their compact no-frills anthems.

Good Girl is one of three lifelike characters who inhabit the bands upcoming EP, Four Songs About Girls, the song’s protagonist appears in a celebratory rooftop dance in the video that accompanies the single. For their upcoming EP, Four Songs About Girls, they’re trying a bit of a departure with three relatively lighthearted tunes about imaginary female characters and a cover of Little Richard’s The Girl Can’t Help It.

“‘Good Girl’ isn’t intended to be smarmy. I saw the soul singer Simi Stone live and when I saw her play her song ‘Good Girl,’ I thought ‘How interesting would it be to write a song from the point of view of the character — from someone who turned good… but not that good.’” (frontman & guitarist Jon Fox)