Girls singing harmonies with guitar, ukulele, dulcimer, glockenspiel, tambourine, moroccas, washboard, and everything else your heart might desire.
"One almost hesitates to make too loud a mention of this Brooklyn-based band, because it’s the sort of act you hope you’ll always see in a small dark room with fifteen or so people. [...]
Now give one of the girls (Holly Overton) an acoustic guitar and ukulele to switch between, and for the other (Júlía Hermannsdóttir) an assortment of percussion toys including a tambourine, pair of maracas, and a small xylophone. [...] But hold on a second, because we haven’t added in the most important ingredient: the delicately-measured usage of creaky vocal harmonies, which makes it requisite that candles be lit in whatever room these girls are playing (as if that wasn’t already the case).
How refreshing to see a folk-pop duo embracing simplicity of sound and not engaging the pretensions laden in so much of the current class of the genre. [...] There is something to be said for the economics employed in using two voices and two instruments for every song, and it brings to mind in form (if not in sound) the idea of the old-school folk duo."
The Uncanny (Ger. Das Unheimliche -- literally, "un-home-ly") is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange.
Success. We had just the right amount of Kaboom to get us home. The tour's over and now we can get back to our normal lives of dead-end jobs and dreams of moderately better dead-end jobs. Many thanks for the CD. We gave it a spin on the way home and it was nice. You're one of the only bands with memorable songs that we played with and your album was refreshing. Kudos.
We'll be back in October for CMJ so perhaps we'll see you ladies around.
HEY HWY! its Irina.:) Sorry I didnt contact you about last wenday i wasnt sure if I was going,. But i am deff. going next week. So if u guys wanna to come to elopy next week just tell me:)
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