Called the "best-named singer in rock" by Alternative Press magazine, Zera Marvel - former front-woman of the band Tagging Satellites, ventures out on her own.
It's hard, if not impossible, to avoid the early Neko Case comparisons. There's a kind of sullen country vibe that resembles Seattle's favorite red-headed export. Marvel doesn't have Case's over-the-top pipes, but she's better at atmospherics: Her songs are tiny, sad stories, beautifully told with an aching heart. If you can listen to Marvel and not get that genuinely sad, old-school country-music hurt in your gut, there's something wrong with you.
- Paul Constant, The Stranger
She doesn't so much "go country" as she does wander down dusty back roads seeing where the stories in her head lead her. The end result is a country-tinged noir pop, the tales of a woman too world-wise to be the ingenue and too hopeful and modest to be the diva.
- sepiachord.com
Why we love her: Her acoustic country is perfect back porch listening.
- Seattle Magazine
Zera Marvel has finished her first solo album titled, "Birds & Bullets Fly". The recording features her enchanting, sometimes low timbered, dusky voice audiences have come to love so much from her Tagging Satellite days.
- Radio Free Seattle
Zera Marvel's vocals are dreamy but she also rears back with a vindictive gnarl when necessary. With one word, she is capable of honesty to the brutal degree like Nico employed so deftly years ago.
- cosmik.com
Zera Marvel. She’s drifting acoustic and dark. There are gothic turns in her stoic stance and she shades country into night.
- Trent Moorman, The Stranger
Then there's Marvel's voice, elusive as Hope Sandoval's but possessing some of Kendra Smith's wearied mystique.
- The Oregonian
"Birds And Bullets Fly" is available on cdbaby.com - click on the link below to buy the CD or MP3s through CD Baby:
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Birds And Bullets Fly - 10 song CD:
$10.00 (includes shipping)
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great seeing you & graig the other night. thanks so much for the cd. it hasn't left my car player since you gave it to me. you should be really proud of it. my top three ditties are: 1) every detail. 2) above my head. 3) people (like us).
PEDIALYTE!!!! I know it's for babies, but it hydrates the liver. So if you are feeling a little hungover, I totally recommend it!! Hope you have a fun night!! Be Fabulous!!!
