Comprised of Superhumanoids‘ Sarah Chernoff, Kisses‘ Jesse Kivel, and Classixx‘s Michael David, Mt. Si is a collaborative side project that can trace its origins to when David and his bandmates in Classixx were working on their first album. As the […]
Tag: Forget Me Nots
I’ve been a bit under the weather over the past day-day-and-half or so with a nasty cold and a sore throat, and as a result things have been much slower going than normal for me; in fact, I’ve spent a good part of today in bed, watching episodes of Law and Order, Killer Instinct with Chris Hansen and Forensic Files and texting friends throughout the course of Winter Storm Juno. But as I’m writing this post, I feel good enough to sit up in my bed with my Macbook, go through several emails and write a post or two. After all, I do feel a duty to you dear friends. . .
Comprised of Superhumanoids‘ Sarah Chernoff, Kisses‘ Jesse Kivel, and Classixx‘s Michael David, Mt. Si is a collaborative side project that can trace its origins to when David and his bandmates in Classixx were working on their first album. As the story goes, the trio of Chernoff, Kivel and David had been writing songs that were meant to appear on Classixx’s debut album. “Mike and I wrote a track that I was supposed to sing,” Kivel explains in press notes, “but Sarah came in and stole the show, From there we realized that we had good chemistry as a trio, writing and producing in a subtle, refined way.”
“Either/Or” is the trio’s breezy and summery debut single and the song pairs a production consisting of skittering drum programming, shimmering and cascading synths and keyboards with Chernoff’s ethereal cooing floating over a two-step worthy mix. Sonically, the song channels early 80s synth pop and funk; in fact, I’m somehow reminded of a breezier versions of Patrice Rushen‘s “Forget Me Nots” and Oran “Juice” Jones’ “The Rain” — but with an urgent and plaintive sense of longing just below its shimmering surface.
New Audio: Rene Lopez’s Super Funky and Seductive, New Single “Heavy Baby, Heavy”
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New Audio: Fine Print’s Latest Single “Can’t Lie” Is 80s Radio-Friendly Pop, Reconfigured For the 21st Century
Although they’ve been purposely mysterious, in order to let their music stand by itself without, the electro pop act Fine Print have captured the attention of a few blogs — including this one — for a […]
if you’ve been frequenting JOVM for some time now, you know that there are a number of artists you will hear about repeatedly over some time, which shouldn’t be terribly surprising over the course of […]
Robert and David Perlick-Molinari of French Horn Rebellion will be releasing a new EP of material, on December 11th titled Love Is Dangerous, and the EP has the band experimenting with a new sound, which bears […]