It's not because I'm a jerk, or that I think my taste in music is soo much more refined (ok, it is partially both of those reasons, but I don't mean it in a disrespectful way). It's mostly because 9 times out of 10 I'm already listening to something, and that something will get all kinds of garbled with the myspace music... Tragedy unfolds.
However, tonight when I listened to a friend of mine's musical selection I discovered something quite spectacular!
Au Revoir Simone is an electronic band from Brooklyn made up of Heather D’Angelo [vocals, drum machines, keyboard], Erika Forster [vocals, keyboards], Annie Hart [vocals, keyboards].
What do these fine upstanding young ladies create? Some of the most amazing dreamy pop music I have heard in a long time. (Though this trio owes more debt to Stereolab, than say MBV) I know that gives a vague explanation to the band. (it's 2:30 in the am, and my brain is leaking out of my ear) Let me try again
Imagine if you will that the 3 eldest Libson sisters (of the Virgin Suicides) each got a synthesizer, and recorded poppy soundscapes using bits and pieces from their diaries as inspiration for their lyrics. The sweet sounds would be light and airy, (the kind of music you would want to hear while sitting under the stars on a cool October night) but with enough worldly understanding to keep even a jaded listeners ears perked.
If the Libson girls were around now, and didn't write this music they would all certainly do everything they could to listen to it. (as my readers should)
Their cd (with a hand silkscreened cover) is available online. I would suggest doing what I just did and buy it.
Download Through the Backyards
Au Revoir Simone on Myspace
Au Revoir Simone official page
[Thanks Rachel! Your taste in music has never ceased to amaze me!]
{EDITED 9:21 AM, now fortified with added coherence!]
1 comment:
I am totally into Au Revoir Simone now. But, tit for tat, I present to you: Husky Rescue, whose (so-far) only album Country Falls is my pick for Best Dream Pop Album of 2006. Imagine if Piper at the Gates of Dawn-era Pink Floyd had actually been good, heavily-influenced by slide-guitar country, and was obsessed with lo-fi electronics and Vangelis-like choirs. This is truly psychedelic music.
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