Girl Friday think of themselves as an explicitly feminist project, though not in the didactic way one might expect from that appellation. The L.A-based quartet, founded by bassist Libby Hsieh and guitarist Vera Ellen after they met at a UCLA house party a couple of years back, operates collectively, each member taking turns at the microphone and equal parts in songwriting; they're all big personalities and big presences, but they find balance-and complement-in one another. There had been iterations of the band before, but none had truly clicked until drummer Virginia Pettis and guitarist Sierra Scott joined. This is the iteration of the band found on Girl Friday's new EP, Fashion Conman; in four nimble tracks, these young women are able to fuse mod-pop a la the early Bangles with 0s alt-rock ("we all love Hole," they say with enthusiasm), the urgency and tension of minimalist '70s post-punk, and contemporary observations, without sounding like pastiche.