SHEL is the sisters Holbrook as a mnemonic and SHEL is also a powerful alternative pop-folk band, alive with creativity! Members Sarah, Hannah, Eva, and Liza are positively fraught with talent, blending their cool harmonies with acoustic and electronic instruments that are fun and functional. The latest long-player, Just Crazy Enough (May 2016) is full of beauty and energy as highlighted by Rooftop (seen/heard here). Though all of the sisters share vocal duties, lead vocal falls to the pretty and sometimes plaintive pipes of Eva. Instrumentally, SHEL is well represented, with Sarah playing guitars…
Read MoreStephanie Mabey graced the pages of Vodka for a brief moment back in October 2012, with her lyric video for The Zombie Song, for the long-player, Wake Up Dreaming. It’s been a long wait, but now, four years and change later, there is a very interesting EP available, I Still Taste Fire (September 2016), from which Heart-Shaped Hologram (seen/heard here) comes. Stephanie’s voice has always been pleasing and her tunes resonate with singable melodies and refrains. What sets her apart here from herself back in 2012 and from other pop…
Read MoreRemember Paul McCartney’s lyrics to Silly Love Songs? “You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs I look around me and I see it isn’t so Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs And what’s wrong with that I’d like to know” Place Meiko in that same camp, And she’s bound and determined to fill the world with as many silly love songs as possible. Enter Meiko’s latest release, Moving Day (June 2016), and that subject matter is found front and center in the lead-off track, I…
Read MoreSpark & Whisper is a folk band with nods to rock, blues, bluegrass, and country thrown in for good measure. Grandma’s Song (seen/heard) here, is from the band’s 2011 self-titled long-player, but the group released Monument (September 2016) just a few months back, and it is excellent! The collection of eleven tracks on Monument is written by bandmates Velvy Appleton (vocals, guitars, and electric bass) and Anita Sandwina (vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, and banjolele). Fleshing out the band’s sound are Paul Eastburn (upright bass), Scott Johnson (drums), Robert…
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