Saturday 9 January 2010

And then your heart skips a beat

 "Her voice kept me from leaving; when she was audible, there was a palpable ache in her singing, as well as flashes of sharp, high tones. There were also uncomfortably generous silences.
Whatever else was going wrong, though, Marshall knew how to dramatize a song, alternating bursts of passion with unintelligible whispers. It’s hard to know what to call the music that she was playing. She strummed her guitar tentatively, repeating a few simple chords. It sounded a bit like the quieter moments in songs by Sonic Youth, but stripped of confidence."

The New Yorker: Wonder Woman. The Transformation of Chan Marshall. Sasha Frere-Jones, in 2007, writes a positive review of "Jukebox".

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