The perfect remedy for the beginning of winter blues...
A review reads, "Philadelphia’s Sun Airway offers a case in point on Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier. The band, a quintet live but on record a duo comprised of songwriters Jon Barthmus and Patrick Marsceill, traffics in gently danceable programmed beats, layers of synths, and Barthmus’s firm and confident vocals. The results are, in a word, pretty. This is the type of record people release to the thirsty masses in the height of the summer, but Sun Airway has done us a favor by holding off until winter, when we could really use the warmth." -By Corey Beasley
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I'd give them all to you I'd pluck them down right from the sky And leave it only blue
A review reads, "My One and Only Thrill is built primarily on Gardot originals (a fine version of "Over the Rainbow" that closes the album being the only exception) that seamlessly blend sultry, late-night jazz blues, singer/songwriter introspection, and sophisticated pop melodies. If anything, My One and Only Thrill emphasizes Gardot's chanteuse qualities, feeling like more of a jazz album than its predecessor, thanks both to its languid atmosphere and also Gardot's phrasing, which elegantly elongates her melodies and slips into scat." by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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HBO has been playing 500 Days of Summer lately & I was reminded how much I love the ending credits song by Mumm-ra.
A review reads, "MUMM-RA are often credited with being indie eccentrics (especially since their name originates from the main villain of the 1980s cartoon, Thundercats).
Recent single She’s Got You High provided further compelling proof of the band’s musical ability.
The track bore all the hallmarks of classic indie-rock material, beginning with a soft and deeply melodic guitar riff and then building emphatically towards a rousing chorus and some Beach Boys-style vocal layering. It’s an incredibly shimmering track that’s perfectly placed to become one of the summer’s breeziest anthems."
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I got the most delightful link to this song & video from the always inspiring Jo Dee Foster of Cutting Up. Thank you girlfriend.... so-so lovely!
A little bit about Tanya Davis, "This spoken word poet/performer masterly cajoles
language into brief, simple songs embodying universal themes such as
love, loneliness, loss, infatuation and art. She's catalogued her deep
pockets of syllables, synonyms, verbs, adjectives and nouns into a
debut disc dubbed Make A List.
"I've been writing since I was very little, it was the first thing I
ever wanted to do when I grew up," says Davis, over morning coffee in
Halifax. "Growing up on P.E.I., there wasn't a hell of a lot to do, as
I'm sure like it is growing up in many small towns.
"I think it influenced me to write a lot. There wasn't really another option."
Nova Scotia recently adopted the burgeoning wordsmith, as the local weekly The Coast
pegged her as "one of Halifax's most mesmerizing performers." In her
late twenties, Davis seems to be spilling the ink from her pen anywhere
and everywhere. Since her humble beginnings softly sputtering words
from scraps of loose leaf at quiet cafes in Vancouver and
Charlottetown, she decided to hang her literary hat in Halifax.
"I try and write every day," says Davis. "I just moved into a new house and I can feel I'm not writing as much.
"I didn't know anybody at first, so I just wrote. I moved here
because I wanted to make music. I wrote every day. That was my work."
Davis draws inspiration from personal experience and the surrounding world."
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A review reads, "Meaghan Smith's Sire Records debut, The Cricket's Quartet may, at first listen, remind folks of old timey jazz vocalists or newer
singer-songwriters like Norah Jones, but her musical sensibilities call
together a slew of other disparate Americana elements. This four-song
EP showcases Smith on vocals and keys, while clarinet solos, whistling
and well-timed horns and strings round out the sound.
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Since Steve & I were about to embark on a 12 hour road trip to the Atlanta Gift Show, I cruised itunes to pick up a few fresh songs before we left and this sunshinee groove by The Cults was one of them.
A review reads, "Cults music
is a throwback, an enigma, sunny and soulful, something you might hear
in San Francisco in the seventies, if you flipped through Joan Didion’s
“Slouching Towards Bethlehem” really fast, if you stood for a while,
maybe waiting for someone important, in front of a street glockenspiel
player, and then gave the guy some cash when your lover didn’t show.
You would walk home whistling that little glockenspiel line. You would
think about driving somewhere far away, whose car you could borrow, who
you would bring with you. When you got home you’d open all the windows
and write a sad song with lots of echoey guitar, record the paranoid
ramblings of some televangelist off your TV, sing/sigh some moody
lyrics. That song would be “Go Outside.”
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A review from Slant Magazine reads, "An album that works as both a blisteringly smart genre study that
combines classic and contemporary perspectives on blues, soul, and
R&B and as just one hell of a rock record, Brothers reaffirms that the Black Keys belong in any serious conversation about America's finest bands." - Jonathan Keefe
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A review reads, "At first the album seems to merely mold itself into a genre that so
many other modern artists have already shaped, from Jack Johnson and
Jason Mraz to John Mayer and Ben Folds. This breed of music goes by any
number of classifications, but whether we call it singer-songwriter,
sandal rock, or blues-driven pop, the results are generally much of the
same. Snappy choruses and bluesy piano or guitar chords are
complemented by pseudo-profound lyrics. The artists often relate their
sound to pioneers like the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, and Billy Joel, but
generally the music never lives up to the standard of its influences.
Unlike his contemporaries, Eric Hutchinson has broken through the
limits of a stale genre and created a piece of pop that is refreshingly
inventive and uniquely soulful." - Elizabeth Newton of Pop Matters
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