Saturday, Mar 3, 2007
Marnie Stern
In Advance of the Broken Arm
(Kill Rock Stars)
Wonderfully weird and fractured pop tunes, overlaid with riff-metal guitar pyrotechnics. It's
incredibly clever and bold in the production and song arrangements, if
not downright experimental -- a super unique mix of killer guitar
hooks, vocal lines and really spacey call-to-arms lyrics.
There's a little math in the arrangements, like the track "Absorb Those Numbers" which is constantly flipping back and forth between different time signatures against these great big melody hooks of "Hey, now... where does it begin?"
When she sings "I'll draw a pyramid, now I'm in the American Revolution"... I'm in. This album has totally grabbed my imagination.
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She has a great psyched out video here:
http://www.killrockstars.com/bands/marniestern/video/marniestern_everysingleline.mov
She is playing at the Knockout Monday night (3/5). I'm there.