Leda wears Floralina lime trim adidas jacket, lime Seafolly bustier, black Billabong denim shorts. Chanda wears Fruitaflor with white trim adidas jacket, white Seafolly bustier, black denim Billabong shorts.

Chanda wears beetroot PUMA trainers, black snake-print cotton on tights, pink Active Body cotton on top. Leda wears Dahlia PUMA trainers, black print cotton on tights, green Active Body cotton on top

Chanda wears black Tropicalia PUMA windbreaker, dark denim Mr Price shorts, purple printed PUMA Sky Wedge. Leda wears green Tropicalia PUMA windbreaker, dark denim SISSY BOY shorts, black Tropicalia PUMA Sky Wedge

Leda wears beetroot Jitsu PUMA Wedge, high-waist blue floral printed Sunseeker’s bikini bottoms, black adidas Original T-shirt. Chanda wears white PUMA T-­shirt, high-waist tropical print Sunseeker’s bikini bottom, green PUMA Classic Wedge

Chanda wears white Rivalry adidas Wedge sneakers, light denim Mr Price shorts, blue printed-style Republic crop-top with mesh sleeves from Spree. Leda wears black snake- print Rivalry adidas Wedge sneakers, light denim SISSY BOY shorts, pink printed-style Republic crop-top with mesh arms from Spree

Leda wears black pineapple print Seafolly bikini top, dark denim SISSY BOY shorts, black disc Tropicalia PUMA trainers. Chanda wears yellow pineapple-print Seafolly bustier, black Mr Price shorts, white disc Tropicalia PUMA trainers.

Full Shoot Credits:

Photography: Kate Davies
Styling & art direction: Leda Wright
Models: Chanda Ramires Ponce / Leda Wright
Location: Pole Dance, Cape Town
H&MU: Haelwyn Adams

Find more photography shoots in our Albums of the Week category! All images from onesmallseed.net

Image: Gap

The project is called ‘Art of Blue’ and Gap is partnering with emerging street artists to create ten striking outdoor murals that celebrate individualism, optimism and democracy. Artists taking part will include Zio Ziegler, Roman Grandinetti and Andrew McAttee, and the street art will appear in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Paris and Rome. Gap is also updating its Styld.by platform with a video series in which Jenn Rogien will talk about how she uses clothes, including Gap items, to bring her characters to life in Girls. In addition to this, Gap will team up with Tumblr for a competition that encourages digital artists to share what ‘Back to Blue’ means to them. You can find out more here.

To follow the content, visit Gap’s Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr communities, and join the conversation with the hashtag #BacktoBlue.

Stores that stock Back to Blue in South Africa include Brooklyn Mall, Cavendish Square, Cradlestone Mall, Sandton City, Tygervalley Centre and participating Stuttafords stores.

Image: Gap

Image: Gap

Image: Gap

Father, Son, Holy Ghost

Girls‘ debut album, Album, released in 2009 showed a diverse style that seemed to draw influences from many different musical movements. It also resisted being classified, and never contained a dominant motif that would have helped to define it. Based on Album, I expected Father, Son, Holy Ghost – their third release after their 2010 Broken Dreams Club EP - would sometimes be noisy and lively, at times slow and introspective, but also retrospective. The album gets off to a running start with ‘Honey Bunny’, a song where Owen say’s that  ‘you don’t like my bony body, you don’t like my dirty hair or the stuff that I say, or the stuff that I’m on..

Girls – Alex

Second song ‘Alex’ is lively and in a smilar spirit as ‘Die’, which comes in with a cool riff and brilliant singing guitar. It’s a party song, from it’s rocking drums to the intent to ‘get fucked up tonight’. This is followed by ‘Saying I Love You‘, a romance-themed ballad that changes the mood of the album, while ‘My Ma’ is pained and moody, letting the guitar do some crying, an early indicator of an album made from diverse emotions. ‘Vomit‘ starts off very stripped down before the noise jumps out from behind a corner, then builds to a noisy crescendo by the end, in a very Antlers-ish way.

Girls – Just a Song

‘Just A Song’ is relaxed and acoustic, as is ‘Forgiveness‘. Both of these show a similarly grim disposition, with the former saying how ‘It feels like nobody’s happy now,’ and the latter saying that ‘nothings going to get any better.’ These sandwich a much happier tune, ‘Magic‘, which has a very ’60s feel to it.

Girls wrap the album up nicely with ‘Love Like A River,’ a lovely little song, before the equally good ‘Jamie Marie’ closes Father, Son, Holy Ghost, parhaps hinting that there may be a happy ending for Christopher Owens after all.

I’m sure that there are many people that have been waiting for the great indie-rock album of the year, an album with guitar solos, that doesn’t fanny about with synths and samples. This is that album.

It has an old school, guitar-based feel about it that will come across as familiar, featuring both riff-based awesomeness and acoustic beauty.

Not that long ago the Arctic Monkeys said that they felt that it was their ‘duty’ to keep guitar music alive, and you kind of knew what they meant. After the White Stripes dissolved and even The Kills have recently drifted away from their riff-heavy sound, the Sheffield band felt the need to promise not to let that style of music fade away. In Girls, they have allies in that cause.

Images:Courtesy of Girls