Trio B.C.

Girl in a Coma | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 2, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blackheart Records
• ASIN: B00278FT0Y
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,547 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2009 sophomore album from the Texas trio. Girl in a Coma, hailing from the Lone Star State, formed when best friends Jenn Alva and Phanie Diaz met in Jr. High School art class over a mutual love of The Smiths, Nirvana, and skipping school. All they needed was a singer. Enter Nina Diaz, Phanie's then 12-year old little sister. Nina blew them away with her mesmerizing vocals, a powerful voice some critics have compared to Bjork, Patsy Cline, and the band's hero, Morrissey himself. 13 tracks. Blackheart.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Second Effort, June 5, 2009

By 

Pepe Unidos (El Paso, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trio B.C. (Audio CD)

Listening by pure accident to Girl in a Coma's debut album "Both Before I'm Gone, was one of those rare moments when a piece of music just becomes an instant revelation. The album combined raw guitar with thrashing beats one moment and then shifted effortlessly to more thoughtful melodies all the while combining various musical influences. Its genius was rooted in its simplicity and passion. This set up a potential pitfall for the band in their second album, Trio B.C. Would the band attempt to recreate the nice tight simple package of "Both Before I'm Gone," or would they attempt the risky, but more rewarding route, of refining their sound and going into different directions. I am pleased to report they close the second option and produced a more mature album that loses nothing in its quality. However, I will say that tracks in Trio B.C. do tend to drift apart some but does not distract from their value. I highly recommend listening to both the band's albums in order to track their amazing progression.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars one of the most underrated female vocalists, October 16, 2009

By 

Willaim E. Tynor III "anti-snob.com" (Phx, AZ) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Trio B.C. (Audio CD)

Nina Diaz of Girl In A Coma may had been one of the most underrated female vocalists in the national punk rock scene. Now with Trio B.C. released to the world earlier this summer, you can now say Diaz is one of the most underrated rock vocalists- period. With 13 new songs ranging from punk to blues-rock, folky alt-ballads, and rock en espanol, Trio B.C. is a major step towards musical diversity and maturity.

Female led alt-rock has had a fair history of strong vocalists, but I personally haven't heard anything as mighty and melodic since the days of Concrete Blonde (a good back to back comparison are tracks 7 & 8, "Slaughter Lane" and "Trails", both dead ringers for any Napolitano-penned song from the early 90s). Drawing comparisons to the golden era of modern rock radio doesn't stop there. The vocal melodies in "Pleasure and Pain" may remind you of The Cranberries while the chord progression of "Joannie In The City" could had come had been strung by Courtney Love herself (ironically, Love's idol Joan Jett contributes guitar on this particular cut).

If I can dismiss my least favorite track as the album's opener, Trio B.C. may be among my year's best. If you don't feel early 90s comparisons are cliché, you may feel the same way.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone should own this CD, July 21, 2009

By 

Oliver JH (GA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trio B.C. (Audio CD)

Quite how GiaC are not enormously popular is a mystery to me. Every song on this CD is a masterpiece and you can listen to it from top to bottom without skipping any tracks. You can hear their influences without being smashed in the face by them.