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404.329.0020
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Atlanta, GA. 30307
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404-371-1113
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Allison Weiss & The Way She Likes It
review by Jen at Adequacy.net
You can’t go wrong with an album cover that features a stack of pancakes! Allison Weiss’s songs are like those pancakes, (s)lightly sweet, warm, (lyrically) yummy, and (emotionally) (ful)filling. This 6-song, indie-pop EP finds Allison in full band mode, singing and playing down-to-earth tunes with no artifice or overt dramatics, just punchy drums, catchy guitars, astute lyrics, and personable vocal delivery.
“I’m Ready” starts it all off with a jaunty, upbeat tempo of strummed guitar and kicky drums that recall “Ciao!” by Lush, followed by additional twangy guitar and Allison sing-talking in a clear, but plaintive tone, as she reveals her intent on the chorus with the line “Just tell me baby, / am I wasting my time?” amid light tinging notes and wordless backing vocals. A sharp drum beat, tambourine shake, and guitar chords fill up “I Don’t Want to be Here”, until a faster pace of flowing piano notes, bass line, cymbal crash, and harmonizing male backing vocals round out the sound as Allison sings “I don’t want to see you / have the time of your life…/ without me.”
“The End” starts in the middle of the EP, sounding like a home recording, with strummed guitar and straight-forward vocals from Allison as she looks back on a relationship where “fact and fiction” were “one confusing blend”, but now she recalls the good parts and considers the guy her friend, but “I don’t mind / calling this the end.” An added shining, rock guitar line gives “The Disappearing Act” a darker feel amid the upbeat tempo of drums and guitar, as Allison sings in a more serious tone, anxiously pushing out her vocals and exclaiming by the end of the song “I’m dying to know / where you go.”
“Daybreak” features low-key, hesitantly-strummed guitar and subdued vocals from Allison where, on certain words, she briefly lifts her voice up to a higher, wistful register as she sings “Slowly my doubts begin to surface. / Tell me all of this is worth it.” Drums roll in, along with cymbal shimmer and a bittersweet, drawn out cello line.
My name is Allison Weiss. I play guitar and tell my secrets to audiences. When I don't hate the world, I'm completely in love with it. My passions in life are music, graphic design, laughing and making people laugh, having awesome conversations, the internet, the concept of love, and attempting to solve problems and/or win the hearts of boys through catchy songs of hope.
My favorite part of playing music is paying my dues. I like to work hard and be rewarded. I like to play out of state and sleep on people's floors. I like to make xerox CDs and sell them for production cost. I like crowds who pay attention, and crowds who get drunk and dance. I like to break strings and break hearts and lose sleep and make friends.
**NOTE ON MESSAGES: In addition to playing music, I'm also a college student and a freelance graphic designer, as well as an avid bike-rider and sandwich-eater. This means I will try really hard to write back to anyone who writes to me, but sometimes it won't happen right away, and sometimes I might even......forget. But keep trying! I'm kind of hard to get ahold of.
Hey, did you get the message i left you? If you want to work on the song just let me know cause i think it could be fun even if its just on one of our comp mikes. later :)
Hi there! Don't worry I'm not sending a message to tell you to listen to my tracks or nothing! Just a little message to say how I adore your music and yourself! I'm from Wales (Uk) and got my own band. I like the fact you try to do everything urself, very much my verdict on the matter! Just bought 2 of ur albums from iTunes! I'm Ready is a killer track!
So, I've watched a significant amount of your videos on youtube. (I actually found you looking for covers of Kids by MGMT). My main point being: I think I'm in love with you.
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