Female Genius

The members of Female Genius have been making uncompromising music for decades. In the runout groove of the group’s 2021 self-titled debut LP, the etching reads: Female genius for a better tomorrow. Tomorrow is today and today echoes forwards and backwards in time. That being said, most of Female Genius started making art during the first flowering of the post-punk aesthetic, absorbing disparate disciplines and farflung influences into, first, their visual art practices, and later the boundary-defying music that they pursued during the 1980s and into the present day. The new Female Genius album Jagged and Fractured is a crown jewel in the discography of its members—Julie Hair, founding member of 3 Teens Kill 4, Live Skull and later Bite Like A Kitty; Marnie Jaffe, a founding and longtime member of Live Skull; Nikki D’Agostino, who plays in Art Gray Noizz Quintet and Vestments; and new addition Janice Sloane, an early member of notorious Downtown noise group Missing Foundation. Hair sings, plays bass, synth and auxiliary percussion; Jaffe sings, plays synth and percussion; Sloane plays guitar, while D’Agostino plays the saxophone and an EWI (electronic wind instrument).
— Erick Bradshaw
Spin Age Blasters with Creamo Coyl
on WFMU