Three young women who create beautiful, complex songs infused generously with three part harmonies is nothing to be sneezed at. Combine this with their skills as session vocalists and instrumentalists for the last ten years and it would be hard to even believe that the average age of this trio is just 22. That’s an incredible feat! Here, Saoirse Duane, Caoimhe Barry and Karen Cowley, performing together as a group called Wyvern Lingo, show off the lovely a Capella number, Used, from their new five-song EP…
Read MoreSinger-songwriter, Rob Cantor’s debut long-player, Not A Trampoline, came out in April (2014), and it is full of wonderful pop musical gems. Take All I Need Is You for instance. Rob’s voice is an pleasing tenor which blends together with itself, strings, (or synthesizers I can’t find any extensive album info), light rhythms, and guitars to great effect. Rob got a following from a stunt video created for his song Perfect, also on Not A Trampoline. That video created quite…
Read MoreI’m not sure how I feel about Billie Marten as yet, but if this video for Ribbon is any indication, then I may be a fan very soon. Ribbon starts with an all too familiar strum, which seems to be everywhere in “new” music these days. Normally I’d have clicked out pretty quickly, but that strum doesn’t linger without the addition of Bille’s vocals for more than 8 seconds. When the vocal kicks in the song becomes a different melody altogether. It is that…
Read MoreThe video for Kishi Bashi’s Philosophize In It! Chemicalize With It! is rightfully surreal and psychedelic. If you are a Vodka reader, then you will recall Kishi Bashi from about a year ago and the review for Bright Whites. Philosophize In It! Chemicalize With It! was actually released as a single in September of last year, but was included in Kishi Bashi’s second full-length, Lighght, a collection of cohesive and interesting tunes, mostly electronically created. There is no…
Read MoreIn the heat of Summer in the US it is nice to have a cool breeze and The Corner Laughers provide that cool with Midsommer. If you are among the uninitiated to The Corner Laughers, then also check out Vodka’s previous review for Bells Of El Camino, from about a year ago. There’s not much change in style here from the group’s earlier long-player, Poppy Seeds, but that does not matter. It’s as if 60’s folk-pop happened yesterday with Midsommer and all…
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