girlfriends, the pop-punk duo comprised of Travis Mills (musical artist, Beats 1 Host, actor) and Nick Gross (Big Noise, Gross Labs, Find Your Grind), are celebrating the release of their debut self-titled album. With production from John Feldmann and inspiration from influential artists like blink-182, 5 Seconds Of Summer, The 1975, etc.
Ahead of the album’s release, girlfriends dropped music videos for singles “Eyes Wide Shut” and “California.” The tracks received adds to coveted playlists including Spotify’s New Noise and California Rock State playlists as well as Apple Music’s New Music Daily and Breaking Alternative playlists.
Mills said about the release of the album:
This record has been a long time coming. It encapsulates all of my teenage despair with a perspective I haven’t been able to articulate until these last 5 years. It’s an exercise in honesty, vulnerability, angst and excitement with nostalgia as the glue that holds it all together. This is my journal entry. This is my life. This is girlfriends.
Gross added:
All the worlds collided between what Feldmann was already doing with his production style and where Travis wanted to go musically. It’s been really cool and went really quickly. We wrote close to 20 songs in just a few months.
Like the punk rock music that first inspired him as a teenager, Mills sees girlfriends as an outlet for soulful expression and emotional catharsis, a means to process his feelings of grief, uncertainty, and renewed vigor for life, in a way that’s likely to connect with others who struggle. Nick is equally enthusiastic to have another crack at pop-punk, the genre that first set him on his career path.