Amity, Christine, Tim and William plus a host of other people playing various instruments.
Influences
Slowdive, Lush, The Wedding Present, Ride, My Bloody Valentine, The Cure, New Order, Joy Division, Secret Shine, Galaxie 500, The Breeders, Brittle Stars, The Stones Roses, Wire, The Pretenders, The Jam, Psychedelic Furs, Catherine Wheel, The Field Mice, Gary Numan, The Church, Jesus and Mary Chain, Bauhuas, Rocketship, Belle & Sebastian, +/-, Bearsuit, The Chills, Beat Happening, Unrest, The Smiths, Blondie, Poundsign, Teenage Fanclub, Mosquitos, Stereolab, Windmills, The Kinks, Pavement, T-Rex, Guided by Voices, Sissybar, The Buzzcocks, Gang of Four, Minutemen, The Pixies, Magnetic Fields, Guided by Voices, David Bowie, The Posies, The Swirlies, Golden Palominos, Mirah, Trembling Blue Stars, The Clash, The Carpenters, Roy Orbison, Woody Guthrie, Camera Obscura, Curve, Monster Movie, Sonic Youth, Nick Drake, Neko Case (and her boyfriends), Yo La Tengo, loud and quiet sounds, the smell of fresh baked bread, thunderstorms, staying home on a rainy day, ocean waves, wind in autumn leaves, birds singing at the break of dawn, sunrise, singing bridges.
Sounds Like
A daydream...a nightmare..and everything in between.
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Singing Bridges is a band making music inspired by personal experience and emotion, a sound that finds inspiration from My Bloody Valentine to vintage American folk. Songs are written collectively, resulting in an amalgamation of hopes and fears that sing and vacillate like modern life - separation, isolation.
At times heavy, dark and inward, contrasted with dreams and memories that are light and hopeful, Singing Bridges echoes the struggle between hope and despair of everyday feelings. Their namesake invokes a combination of man and nature - steel grate deck and suspension bridges built to ease the flow of more people and more cars, suddenly transformed into a musical instrument. The sound of tires and a myriad of fast moving cars on a steel grate makes different pitches, different speeds create harmonies and sonic orchestras. Steel suspension cables, designed to be flexible and to adapt with nature, sway with the wind, eventually singing a symphony of harmonic noise.
The winsome On Y Va (translation: "Let's Go"),
is sung in French by Amity and Christine, thoughts drift towards a sunny day in the park, an attractive couple, cats and dogs playing together in the garden. Life is carefree and there are no worries, "joeuez tous les jours" - playing all the time. Disappear is driven by the mixed feelings of love and anger, the push and pull of a relationship gone sour and a whispered wish to disappear from pain. The realization is illustrated in the words, "I will never leave and you will never stay." During live performances, of Disappear, Singing Bridges becomes a whirlpool of sound, an epic sonic boom, a noise barrier, distorted notes that feel like scars that carry on. The Makeout Song is like the time after a serious relationship - the desire to break down social hindrances, to celebrate freedom with wild abandon, the hangover after a one-night stand. "I don't want to talk to you - I just want to makeout with you." The final song, Permanent Ink, ends with memories from the past that seem like a dream. It's the song of new freedom, capturing spontaneity and an ephemeral moment with a person you meet and instantly know. An instant trust with a stranger turns into a weekend road trip, capturing a sublime and ephemeral moment of two lives that intersect at x and y.
Some reviews: @ Indie mp3
Singing Bridges are an indie pop band from the States. The core members of the band were formerly in Manchester By The Sea.
The band also features the people who run the Skipping Stones Records label and who organise the annual Popfest now into it's 5th year. The Sunny Day Rainy Day EP is their début release.
The overall impression of the EP is that this is how The Breeders would sound if they played lo-fi indie pop. It's very harmonic and the shared female vocals, reminiscent of the Deal sisters, gives it a very strong focal point. As for the production you take the rough with the smooth here but I like the coarse sound of the recordings especially on the stand out track On Y Va which is sung entirely in French. At other points in the EP you hear traces of shoegaze, folk and echoes of long forgotten bands all which hopefully point towards the promise and expectation of greater things from the band. Pennyblack Music
It all depends on how miserable and curmudgeonly you are, and your take on girly, charmingly wibbly,on-off-.. vocals and 60's-ish song-writing.
If you're a true romantic, this harmony-drenched,breezily strummed four-song confection will have you smiling as you picture a young Brigitte Bardot freewheeling down a sun-dappled French country lane on her bicycle, blonde locks billowing out behind her.
The heartless misery guts, however, will envision a drippy trainee infant school teacher, staring out of her bedsit window and still yearning over a boyfriend who dumped her three years ago.
We laugh in the face of cynicism, so we're demanding you go for the the former. In between wondering, that is, what mood stabilisers a band needs to be on to make their happy tunes sound so pleasingly wistful and the sad stuff so candyfloss sweet? And can you get them on the internet ?
WHAT!!!!!! I checked out this page, saw we're playing together and then clicked on pics....OH MY WORD! Why didn't you say something you sneaky mcsneaks! It will be so nice to see you again William and Christine! ha! ha! see you soon!
HI! We are not currently playing LIVE at the moment. We are recording and preparing for some shows this summer early i hope... We will see. Lets keep in touch until then, and when we have some things lined up, we will let you know! -Perry Skylight
Haha, the recording are done on a couple different things. I sometimes use a little sony digital recorder, or a little mic attachment that goes on top of my iPod, or the built in mic for a mac laptop.
On the song, "Wish you had a mind", I took a cheap kids mic from a keyboard that I bought from Ross and attached it to the Sony Digital recorder to try to capture an old scratchy record sound.
I'm just having fun playing around with different ways to put music out there. Thanks so much for the kind words.
