Fauxllennium: TV Girl and George Clanton’s Charming Nostalgia Trip

When confronted with the difficulties of adult life, many find themselves yearning for their childhood. They focus on the blissful moments absent of responsibilities, like the seemingly endless summer days spent by the pool and chasing after ice cream trucks. Nostalgia for the late 1990s and early 2000s takes the forefront in Fauxllennium (a portmanteau of the adjective “faux” meaning artificial and “millennium” a period of 1000 years), the newest release from indie pop band TV Girl in collaboration with singer and electronic-musician George Clanton. Consisting of seven songs with a duration of only 27 minutes, TV Girl and George Clanton delivered an album free of excess, allowing listeners to experience it in totality without feeling exhausted. Some TV Girl fans have criticized the album for being too much of a departure from some of the band’s earlier work in albums like French Exit (2014), Who Really Cares?