Dear Reader – I Know You Can Hear It

admin — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 17:45:18 +0000

Dear Reader, the name of South African musician Cherilyn MacNeil’s, latest tune I Know You Can Hear It spans that liminal space between light and dark, warm vocals and cold themes, clear lyrics and maddening topics. It’s taken from upcoming album Day Fever, (due to drop on February 24th 2017 via City Slang), which was slow in coming as her first in four years, but recorded in a speedy ten days in San Francisco with John Vanderslice. The album title is an anarchic euphemism for hysteria, and the playful dancing around of I Know You Can Hear It, lingers on the threshold of familiar melodic trajectory before shifting away to something altogether atypical evokes a sense of being adrift. Guazy and exposed, it’s quite magical how she manages to sound so raw even with a ten piece orchestra, and there’s a delicacy to her work, despite a cryptic sense of apparent vulnerability.

Pick A Piper – All Her Colours

admin — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:43:13 +0000

It helps to have friends. On latest project Pick a Piper, Caribou’s Brad Weber is joined by members of Ruby Suns, Enon/Brainiac, Born Ruffians and Braids. Beats and bass combine under guitars in what is a successful spread eagle straddling of rock and dance, capable of being played on the stereo and at a gig. All Her Colours is taken from the short and sweet debut album (it is barely longer than an EP at eight tracks long). This will be the first full length, after two EPs, released on November 4th through City Slang, along with a slew of November European tour dates. Complex, rhythmic, with a low rumbling bass line underpinning the euphoric build, it packs a punch whilst remaining intelligent and impactful. Using a palette of instruments not usually found on the dance floor, including glockenspiels, acoustic guitar, and flute. The chorus goes a bit too sunny and breezy, almost Two Door-esque, but on the verses and builds its dark and delicious. Oh, and I love the typewriter at the start of the video. Bonus points for that one.
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Dear Reader – I Know You Can Hear It

Pick A Piper – All Her Colours