John Lynch: Drums, Chris Barrey: Guitars, Organ, and lots of other stuff
Influences
Yanka Dyagileva, Kino, Auktyon, Alyosha Dmitrievich, Leonid Utesov, Alan Lomax field recordings, Black Ox Orkestar, Fat Possum records, Hildegard Von Bingen and Gnarls Barkley
Sounds Like
"something about Simone’s directness...claws at the heartstrings in a way her idols and peers haven’t in years."
--PAPER THIN WALLS
"Her familiar yet distinct pipes curl around minor chord melodies like smoke, and on the closer “Country of Two” prove as capable of carrying a full-on rock assault as they are of gnarled, noir indie folk."
--POP MATTERS
"a sprightly Ukrainian-born, suburban-Boston-raised songwriter with a richly textured voice, celebrates the release of her new album "Placelessness," which evokes but does not mimic many of the pop milestones of the past decade, including the fractured beats of Radiohead and the exuberance of Björk.
--THE NEW YORKER
"Simone’s singing is sometimes raw and yelping like Harvey’s, sometimes faltering like Chan Marshall’s, always treading a surefooted path through a black briar patch of guitars...that make it sound as much like early 1990s Dischord (think a more polished Slant 6) as early 90s Harvey (think Rid of Me)."
--PITCHFORK
"Placelessness has the stripped-down sound of a burgeoning indie artist bearing herself to a small, dark room of unseen admirers. Simone, with her second album, seems poised to claw her rightful place among the guitar-heavy rock goddessess of the world."
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I was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine and grew up in the suburbs of Massachusetts. I never sang in public until I moved to Austin, Texas where I started playing in the doorway of an abandoned bar near the corner of 6th and Congress. My music is about people that bring you to the brink of joy and despair and about having epiphanies in the most ordinary places.
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