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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: 2006, let's hear it |
| Date | Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:06:14 -0600 |
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1. The Pipettes -- great girl group sounds, suprisngly sharp lyrics, and a
bit of Fuzzbox-ish attitude. Oh, and many of the songs just kill.
2. First review of Be Your Own Pet that made me interested - I'll have to
pick it up.
3. An ex-girlfriend turned me onto Persephone's Bees -- she sent me a CD-R
of an early album. Stewart captures it pretty well -- there's also some
'80s new wave froth mixed in. To put it another way, these are strong,
upbeat pop songs with a compelling front woman. A Top 20 candidate.
Mike Bennett
Blog: http://blog.myspace.com/mrhonorama
Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
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>From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: 2006, let's hear it
>Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:13:52 -0500
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Holmes Online" <bholmes_fm@msn.com>
>>So let's start with one album, ANY album, that might be floating under the
>>radar of most people. Tell us. Sell us.
>
>I have two, one indie and one major-label. Neither of them are my favorite
>album of the year (that's probably gonna be either Beirut's GULAG ORKESTAR,
>an album that's far enough outside the standard Audities purview that I'm
>not even gonna bother to sell it, or the Pipettes' WE ARE THE PIPETTES,
>which is probably going to rate fairly high among those who heard it), but
>they're records that I think deserve more mention than they've gotten
>around here, which is...well, pretty much none.
>
>Indie: BE YOUR OWN PET, Be Your Own Pet (XL) -- these guys have gotten a
>boatload of comparisons to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but to me, they're much
>more like the band I had *heard* the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were supposed to be
>like, before I finally heard the YYYs and discovered they're a bad Siouxsie
>and the Banshees tribute act. Four teenagers from Nashville, with
>surprisingly impressive Audities credentials -- the original rhythm
>section consisted of the sons of local '70s cult fave Robert Ellis Orral
>(though they've both left the band) and the album was produced by Redd
>Kross' Steve McDonald -- Be Your Own Pet specialize in noisy two-minute
>punk songs with just the right mix of pop smarts and bratty attitude.
>Singer Jemima Pearl (also a music-biz legacy: her dad's Jimmy Abegg, a CCM
>musician and photographer) sounds shockingly like Pylon's Vanessa
>Briscoe-Hay, and as a whole, they're recommended to anyone with fond
>memories of Pylon, pre-reggae Slits, the Adverts and that whole wing of
>spiky, noisy post-punk stuff. MySpace:
>http://www.myspace.com/beyourownpetmusic
>
>Major-label: NOTES FROM THE UNDERWORLD, Persephone's Bees (Columbia) -- I
>have trouble deciding what's more shocking, that this album was released by
>a major label or that as far as I know, it was never mentioned on Audities.
> The closest musical comparison is Ivy, and it's a very close one indeed.
>The singer, Angelina Moysov, is Russian instead of French, but she has the
>same chilly, slightly-accented purr of a voice as Dominique Durand (and,
>shallow though it may be of me to say, is to my mind even hotter: imagine
>Nigella Lawson fronting a band), but where Ivy's wayback machine is set to
>the UK indie charts circa 1985, Persephone's Bees add a few other obvious
>influences: some '60s psych and freakbeat, a bit of indie-dance along the
>lines of Stereolab and St. Etienne, a little glam. (The AMG review -- not
>by me -- repeatedly mentions Brian May in the guitarist's sound; I don't
>personally hear it as much, though I see what he means.) What I love about
>it is that all of these influences tend to be going on at the same time
>rather than being segregated per song. MySpace:
>http://www.myspace.com/persephonesbees and YouTube has videos for "Nice
>Day," "City of Love," "Climbing" (my personal favorite), "Paper Plane" (the
>most freakbeaty/glammy of the lot, for those whose tastes run in that
>direction) and "On the Earth." This record never had a chance on a major --
>I'm sure they've already been dropped -- but it's got "future cult classic"
>written all over it.
>
>S
>
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