admittedly, and probably like most of you, i have my musical “things.” these “things” usually manifest themselves into certain genres and artists that “do it” for me. these “things” that “do it” for me are typically your standard rock stuff that 35 year old dudes are into, but you already knew that. what i am getting at is that eve searls and her chosen moniker, bird and flower, arent typically something i would listen to, but dammit if she didnt win me over about half-way through one listen of “hotboots” off her recently released sunken treasure records, here we cease our motion – which was produced by jerry decicca of The black swans. the record tows a gray line tween singer songwriter inspired numbers ala edith frost and joanna newsom to more glitchy pop numbers ala lykke li and the blow. now, me and eve see eye to eye on the first genre, but her more pop inspired numbers is where i initially had a knee jerk “this aint my thing” reaction. but as i said earlier, it only took about a minute to put the knee down and give in to what she is selling. simply put,”hotboots” is fun fucking song, the record is quite charming, and sometimes i, collective we?, just gotta get past the idea that not everything needs to be life changing and accept and love shit for exactly what it is. i have issues, and i am coming to grips with em.
buy here we cease our motion, here via sunken treasure – which is run by robert @ donewaiting.
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Bird and Flower – That’s the Ticket from Strummy on Vimeo.
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