Saturday, February 22, 2014

SPOTIFY REVIEW: The Casket Girls "True Love Kills the Fairy Tale" (Graveface Records)

             Very rarely do you find a band that just clicks on every level and with every song.   The Casket Girls have this quality of dream pop rock mixed some sort of synth, but the music isn’t really as important as the overall presentation of it.

            Don’t get me wrong, music is the most important thing, but the way that these notes are played, these vocals are sung and these lyrics were written just come together to craft one of the finest pieces of music these ears have ever bared witness. 

            A song like “Ashes & Embers” can have this really long, drawn out deep sounding synth that just sounds perfect.  Other songs have different qualities, but they all remain unique in their own ways yet also connected so on some level very much the same.

            It is hard to find an album that just clicks on every level like this.  I’m not sure I can recall one since last year’s “Arrows” by Polly Scattergood and before that Metric’s “Fantasies”.   This would be the top of my Best of 2014 list right now and be very unlikely to be dethroned if I kept such lists. 

            Words cannot describe the magic that is happening here.  You just better become a part of it yourself—that’s all I can really say.  


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