this is pretty cool, i love female singers

[UnfilteredDregs]

That was cool -- not the least because it was 2:34. (Digression: Whatever happened to short songs, and short albums? Ever since random-access hard disc recording and cheap storage, every band has to do 60+ minute CDs full of 5+ minute tunes. I miss economy. And succinctness.)

Something about the sound and (especially) the look of the guitarist made me wonder if he came from the Battles/Don Cab school of Math Rock, and this was just his "pop" [sic] side project?

Battles!!!!!

I have one of their records, absolutely love it. I caught wind of them via Tomahawk, Helmet, etc..

I have no idea if there's any relationship there; Vukovi is a Scot band, and I know of them because Hammish the guitarist is a nephew of a friend who's a mighty fine professional photographer; who also happens to drum a pocket the size of the Grand Canyon- Jonnie Miles.

During a very musically magical time in the 90's I used to go to "Church," and church was Tuesday night's in a basement rehearsal studio on 99th & Broadway to hang out with Shock Me Blue and partake of all things musical...

(Shock Me Blue, video from that space: )

To make the story short...(I know..lmao) One of my band's rehearsed there as well, and this was a mostly Marshall house of sound. I vaguely remember Jonnie bringing down a little curly ginger headed kid who had just picked up guitar to witness the RnR mayhem...and that was Hammish.

I'd like to think the experience may have had a part in turning him into a Marshall man, It was an awesome sounding space graced by some amazing musicians. :D

About the aesthetic of the sound though...Good EL34 amp power sections have these amazingly complex overtones when overdriven well, it's a swirl of harmonic goodness, while remaining tight and focused...something I've never really gotten from the Fender camp, but the Vox camp has some good overlap.

I've always wondered if those equipment characteristics draws a certain kind of rock "noise" player whereby one is intrigued by that aural texture, because it is very feedback reactive, and one is playing the "music within the music." That aural aesthetic in turn driving composition in a very physical sense because you're dynamically working a medium, I can't help but think of throwing a pot made out of air.

......and yeah, the math rock, syncopation like that makes my hairs stand on end, it's exciting, and yet to my ears their is still so much space for the vocal melody as she just casually meanders it right across the top of that precision sonic bombasity.

I'm so with you on the short songs. If it goes by fast and you have a shit eating grin on your face...Leave it alone! Don't add that bridge, or extra verse! Although I'm admittedly guilty of excess in some compositions...ahem.

[Saab2000]

Another gem from a few years ago, heard today on the local MPR music station.

[Tom]

Haven't followed the whole thread but I saw Shemekia Copeland at the Egg and she was just great, then she put the microphone down and sang to the room and that was impressive.

[randonneur]

RIP Sharon Jones



edit to add: Sharon Jones, Soul and Funk Singer With Dap-Kings, Dead at 6 - Rolling Stone

[davids]

I could spend a few weeks swimming through this: Turning The Tables: The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women : NPR

Revisit records I absolutely love, discover new wonders...

[alexstar]

these days mostly Banks

[ericpmoss]

A nice cover.

[ericpmoss]

And another.

[ericpmoss]

[Greg L]

I'm a big fan of The Wild Reeds - the singers are three women who really know how to harmonize:



Also Deap Vally. They're just so damn fun:

[seanile]

snail mail


julien baker


boygenius. Julien Baker is 1/3 of this with Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers, they each lead sing one of the songs from their EP.
Hear New Music From Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus' Supergroup Boygenius : NPR

[bironi]

Anyone here remember soft-rock?
Sometimes I feel in a time warp.

[Blue Jays]

Awesome song about pedaling bicycles, average speed, peak speed, and wattage:

[ericpmoss]

She still has it.