Melody Maker said "This, their divine debut, works as an ensemble piece. These 13 dream-dipped delights provide the perfect soundtrack to some sepia-tinted silent movie and manage to pull off the near-impossible: they are appealingly gauche but never gormless, naive but never nerdy. Most are under three minutes, their wealth of tiny details strung on a delicate, twittering frame. 'September in the Night' and 'Cloud Symphonies' are pop songs like you've never heard them, impressionistic, hazy things that throb with wobbly, sub-aquatic strings and a piano that sounds like it's floating up from the cellar. You can thank Shimmy's chief kook, Kramer, for that, of course. There's a general air of uneasiness beneath the charm, though, of Something Nasty never far away. " They were, inexplicably, featured in the "Cute Band Alert" column of Sassy magazine. I scored my CD for less than a buck a few months ago, though it's north of $9 on Amazon now. But you can hear them free on Spotify. Here's the trippy "September in the Night," and "Cloud Symphonies."
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Fan of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea? Check out Licorice Root Orchestra.
Fan of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea? Check out Licorice Root Orchestra.: Their debut album is a weird, hypnotic masterpiece. Licorice Root Orchestra was an obscure band out of Newark, DE. They echo shades of Neutral Milk Hotel, John Lennon, Brian Wilson, Spacemen 3 and Marc Bolan.
Melody Maker said "This, their divine debut, works as an ensemble piece. These 13 dream-dipped delights provide the perfect soundtrack to some sepia-tinted silent movie and manage to pull off the near-impossible: they are appealingly gauche but never gormless, naive but never nerdy. Most are under three minutes, their wealth of tiny details strung on a delicate, twittering frame. 'September in the Night' and 'Cloud Symphonies' are pop songs like you've never heard them, impressionistic, hazy things that throb with wobbly, sub-aquatic strings and a piano that sounds like it's floating up from the cellar. You can thank Shimmy's chief kook, Kramer, for that, of course. There's a general air of uneasiness beneath the charm, though, of Something Nasty never far away. " They were, inexplicably, featured in the "Cute Band Alert" column of Sassy magazine. I scored my CD for less than a buck a few months ago, though it's north of $9 on Amazon now. But you can hear them free on Spotify. Here's the trippy "September in the Night," and "Cloud Symphonies."
Melody Maker said "This, their divine debut, works as an ensemble piece. These 13 dream-dipped delights provide the perfect soundtrack to some sepia-tinted silent movie and manage to pull off the near-impossible: they are appealingly gauche but never gormless, naive but never nerdy. Most are under three minutes, their wealth of tiny details strung on a delicate, twittering frame. 'September in the Night' and 'Cloud Symphonies' are pop songs like you've never heard them, impressionistic, hazy things that throb with wobbly, sub-aquatic strings and a piano that sounds like it's floating up from the cellar. You can thank Shimmy's chief kook, Kramer, for that, of course. There's a general air of uneasiness beneath the charm, though, of Something Nasty never far away. " They were, inexplicably, featured in the "Cute Band Alert" column of Sassy magazine. I scored my CD for less than a buck a few months ago, though it's north of $9 on Amazon now. But you can hear them free on Spotify. Here's the trippy "September in the Night," and "Cloud Symphonies."
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