Murder Mystery

Murder Mystery (New York City)
“I don’ t think there’ s a direct correlation between the number of CMJ shows a band plays and destiny to become the biggest band on earth. Phoenix is only playing one show, same as us. It’s safe to say that we are just as popular as Phoenix.” – Jeremy Coleman of Murder Mystery
- Blackbook Magazine

Solving a mystery is probably the coolest thing in the world. Not the lost keys-like mystery or the Old Man River stole my chicken feed Scooby Doo mystery, I’m talking the “flames, fl fl flames on the side of my face” “Clue” type mystery. It just makes you feel like you put the puzzle together perfectly while the fat ass Professor Plum and Colonel Mustard argue over who has the bigger lead pipe.

And who does like to feel like perfection ... and in the case of Murder Mystery, sound like perfection.

This Brooklyn-based foursome are laced with a brother-sister vocalist duo Jeremy (guitar) and Laura Coleman (drums) and adorable manly bookends Eric Fels (bass), Graham Roberts (keys), who recently released a killer track called "Problems" that had me slowly trying to solve how the hell they sounded so untainted. In a world jam-packed with commercialistic audio — even the indie stuff — Murder Mystery some how manages to keep its childlike originality.

Their debut album, “Are You Ready for the Heartache Cause Here It Comes,” weaseled its way into my musically library early last year, and with each play of one the gangs tunes, the corner of my mouth seems to curl like a balloon ribbon ready to party. Each synth of “I Am if You Are” and lackadaisical lyric of “Change My Mind” reminds me that life isn’t that big of a flippin’ deal and solving the mystery of it is almost impossible.

Take a listen to all three mentioned songs below, and snag their new track “Problems” to take listen to in the study ... while you murder it on the dancefloor. - NY Post

It’s always great to hear from our friends in Murder Mystery, especially when they bring new music. Not that we don’t still love Love Astronaut, which is percolating in the background as I hammer this out, but this is America and “what have you done for me lately” is a national epidemic. Problems is freshly-mastered, and unlike the previous material from these fragmentary art-poppers, it finds drummer Laura Coleman on lead vocal. Now that I think about it, it doesn’t seem fragmentary either. The softer side of Murder Mystery? We premiered the tune today on SIRIUS XMU Blog Radio, and are now serving it up for the taking. If you feel the spirit move you, feel free to sound off in the Comments section. And if you’re in NYC in the coming weeks, make it a point to check out Murder Mystery on their home turf. Your mother would like that. - My Old Kentucky Blog

Murder Mystery is a acharming indie-rock quarter that's distinguished by its playfulness - The New Yorker

Less than one minute into their debut, Murder Mystery is in full rave-up mode and vocalist Jeremy Coleman finds himself going down for the third time in a torrent of jagged guitars and busy drums. At the precise moment it seems they can't turn the screws any harder, the floor drops out and the song lurches into its cascading chorus, leaving Colemen to plaintively inquire, "Are you ready for the heartache, cause here it comes." Friends, believe me, a breakup has never sounded more thrilling.

Are You Ready For The Heartache Cause Here It Comes will test the data display capacities of most mp3 players, but it's certainly worth a listen if you like your music angular and up-tempo. By applying the serrated guitar textures of bands like Television and the Velvet Underground to 60s pop sensibilities and a bit o'country, Murder Mystery is left with musical confetti: airy, yet ironic art-pop. Toss Ryan Adams sideman/Strokes knob-turner J.P. Bowersock in the co-production chair to verify the levels are just hot enough, and the final product sounds like modern Modern Lovers. January be damned, these songs are made for jamming windows-down in your brother's car, with notable exception of the bubbling Love Astronaut, which will likely be featured in a Target ad before you finish reading this post.

Murder Mystery isn't going to blow you away with innovation, but given their songwriting chops and infectious energy, most folks aren't going to care. If the band has an Achilles' Heal, it is Jeremy Coleman's vocal style. Personally, I think his deadpan delivery is the perfect compliment to these tunes; what I imagine Buster Keaton would sound like fronting The Feelies, but you should take that with a grain of salt since I also consider Craig Finn to be a golden-throated crooner of the highest order. My ladyfriend, in particular, initially didn't take to Coleman's Lou Reed-on-lithium stylings, but after repeat listens, even she was inspired to comment, "I don't hate it as much as I thought I did." How's that for a glowing recommendation?

Murder Mystery - Love Astronaut

Murder Mystery on Tour:

Mon Jan 21th - Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club
Tues Jan 22th - Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge
Wed Jan 23rd - St. Louis, MO - 2 Cents Plain
Thurs Jan 24th - Chicago, IL - Schuba's
Fri Jan 25th - Madison, WI - The Annex
Sat Jan 26th - Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club
Mon Jan 28th - Billings, MT - Yellowstone Valley Brewing Company
Wed Jan 30th - Vancouver, BC - The Railway Club
Thurs Jan 31st - Seattle, WA - Skylark
Fri Feb 1st - Portland, OR - Tonic Lounge
Sat Feb 2nd - San Francisco, CA - Fat City
Sun Feb 3rd - Los Angeles, CA - The Scene
Fri Feb 8th - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge - My Old Kentucky Blog

Murder Mystery: Uh-oh, Love Comes to Town
The appealingly jaundiced cynicism of a pop band with a soul and a brain
by j. poet

Murder Mystery is a pop band with a soul and a brain, expert at turning out catchy, hard-rocking, intelligent music in the mode of Nick Lowe, Magnetic Fields, or Talking Heads. There's isn't a single weak track on their self-released debut, Are You Ready for the Heartache Cause Here It Comes; the band's propulsive grooves reference everything from doo-wop to new wave, smoothly melded into their own unique style. Frontman Jeremy Coleman's delivery combines Leonard Cohen's detached tone with David Byrne's anxious yelp to deliver forlorn commentary on the state of modern romance. "I wish I had a singing style," he says modestly, chatting via cell phone from a tour van driving through a Midwestern snowstorm. "I like to sing on key, but I don't try to emulate anyone. You have to be a good singer to do that, and I'm not there."

Coleman also plays '50s-style lead guitar that's equal parts blues, country, and rock, without a trace of the usual Chuck Berry–isms most guitarists fall back on. "Music was always a big part of my life," he says. "I thought I was a mediocre guitar player and singer, but when I graduated from college, I realized I didn't want a job—I wanted to be a musician." He moved to New York with bassist buddy Adam Fels and recruited his sister Laura, a professional tap dancer, to play drums. When Kevin Jaszek joined on second guitar, the band got to work blending Coleman's ironic observations with upbeat melodies that make his jaundiced stories of relationships gone awry affecting, without dipping into self-pity. Even in a song like "What My Baby Said," where he already has the girl, Coleman croons: "She said she loves me, in a way that I could never love her back." Not your standard happy ending.

Since they recorded the album, Graham Roberts has replaced Jaszek on second guitar, soldiering on as the band crisscrosses the country delivering their dyspeptic vision of love and romance. "I don't like slow and sulky music, but somehow the lyrics are cynical," Coleman explains. "I just don't have the personality—or the courage—to write an I-love-you-baby-more-than-life-itself song." - The Village Voice

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MP3s: Murder Mystery Takes Manhattan!

Manhattan: home to a million lost dreams, a thousand failed bands, grizzled wannabes, talentless hacks, and here and there, working as tap dancers, bookstore employees and "barristas," real talent hoping to break out into the big time.

For every live music venue that has closed in NYC over the last ten years, another two have sprouted up and mostly across the East River in Williamsburg. It's at these tiny dens of musical iniquity that bands like Murder Mystery ply their wares and push their dreams. Only Murder Mystery, like a small handful of NYC bands, has the goods to turn their dreams into reality. And these days, with diminished expectations all the rage, a happy reality could be the ability to record for your own label and establish a loving fan base. Still in their 20s, the three guys and a gal of Murder Mystery can afford to engage reality on their own terms, to heck with major labels.

Reviews among the bedhead press have already compared this gutsy four-piece's debut, Are You Ready For The Heartache Cause Here It Comes, to Buddy Holly, Television, Pavement and the Velvet Underground. Hyperbole? Hardly. You know it's the real thing when you leave the gig humming the band's tunes and Murder Mystery rates 95% on the hum-ability meter. Lead singer/songwriter Jeremy Coleman sings with the detached longing of an old soul, typically looking for sunshine but receiving a rock instead. Charlie Brown with an obvious literary bent and a toughened heart of gold? Meet Mr. Coleman. His songs bubble with introspective, universal themes and frenetic guitar work, well matched with little sister Laura Coleman's sprightly manic two-beat drumming pulse. Coleman's glowingly catchy songs (ably forwarded with the assistance of Adam Fels [bass] and Graham Roberts [guitar]) will get under your skin like a summertime rash.

Murder Mystery does resemble a barbed, heartbreaking cross between an energetic Velvet Underground matched with the good time ‘50s pummel of Buddy Holly and the modern thrum of Pavement, all focused through a prism of wry lyrics and joyous beat making. Live, Murder Mystery doesn't do much more than stand and stare straight ahead, concentrating on pure delivery, promoting music beyond style, class or trend. Laura's obvious tub thumping glee is a constant, as is Jeremy's deadpan delivery. With rising rents, Disneyland condos rising like totems to Donald Trump and an influx of well heeled European tourists, Murder Mystery recalls Manhattan's good old bad old days.

"Love Astronaut" is Murder Mystery's left turn in sound, fat buzzing guitar balancing a perky, perpetual synth line and Fels' crisscrossing bass work. As with many a MM song, it illustrates Coleman's endless quest for love. In a city of 8 million, this man deserves a break! And so does Murder Mystery.

Murder Mystery: "Love Astronaut" (MP3, 3:00) - Yahoo! Music

MURDER MYSTERY: Are You Ready For The Heartache Cause Here It Comes
Jan 30, 2008
By Lisa Hresko

Remember Weezer's 1994 nerd anthem "Buddy Holly?" Well, New York City's Murder Mystery shares that same stand-by-your-gal sentiment, only frontman Jeremy Coleman actually croons like the ol' Crickets leader himself. A collision of hip-shaking '60s soda-shoppe pop and early '90s garage gems, the self-released Are You Ready For The Heartache... is essential jangly, shy-guy-in-the-corner, break-up-and-breakdown rock. And let's face it, once the shy guy breaks out a guitar and a sweetly catchy tune, folks of the female persuasion swoon. "I go lookin' for love, but is it looking for me?" jingles the catchy synth-sprinkled, lovelorn ditty, "Love Astronaut." Aww!

But the record is not simply a romanticized appeal to the nice-guys-finish last aesthetic. In fact, it radiates a peppy summertime glow as tap-dancer-cum-drummer Laura Coleman shows off her sugary pipes, backing her brother on tracks like "Sooner Or Later." Guitar slides and slick riffs—like the Ventures' Hawaii Five-O-style intro of the aforementioned song—powerfully punctuate this shimmying pre-Winehouse beehive record. You could even mashed potato with Jennifer Grey's Baby to surf jam "What My Baby Said." Other gems in this collection include the blue-collar twangster "Cold, Hard Workin' Man" and the infectious "Baby, You Can Write Me a Letter," which will turn any teenager's march into a strut.

Tracklist For Are You Ready For The Heartache Cause Here It Comes:

01. Who Doesn't Wanna Give Me Love?
02. In A Sentimental Mood
03. Love Astronaut
04. Think Of Me
05. Honey Come Home
06. Cold, Hard Workin' Man
07. Tell Me I'm Your Man
08. Baby, Can You Write Me a Letter
09. What My Baby Said
10. Huggin'
11. Sooner Of Later
12. It's All True - CMJ

Murder Mystery @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg
Murder Mystery | Music Hall Of Williamsburg | May 15, 2008

Murder Mystery opened up for Los Campesinos! at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg on Thursday night. The New York City four piece seemed to be vying for the position of happiest band of the evening (which against Los Campesinos! is quite the task).

Sometimes it can be quite the chore to wait while an opening band plays, thanks to Murder Mystery’s poppy songs and cheerful attitude, it seemed they were done far too soon. The band’s only currently scheduled show is at the Highline Ballroom in New York City on September 9th for a Children’s Cancer Fund Benefit. - CMJ.com

USA Today - POP CANDY
By Whitney Matheson

The week in Pop: My favorite things

...Also, have you heard Murder Mystery? Magnetic Fields fans may dig this NYC band, which has a record out this month. The song to hear on their MySpace page is Love Astronaut. - USA Today - POP CANDY

I can’t hide my love at all

Oh the nostalgia, the possibilities, the cross-fertilisation, the first tinny lo-fi chords, a racket, a deep baritone voice, kind of like Beat Happening playing Motown - marvellous. By the time it reaches halfway all sorts of comparisons are going through my mind and I’m thinking that ‘Cold, Hard Workin’ Man’ sounds like the National partying with Orange Juice, a glorious ramshackle Postcard sound with guitars bouncing off the deep vocal.

It is the skittering playful guitar sounds contrasting with the vocals of Jeremy Coleman that gives the band their sound, and indeed when he relinquishes vocal duties for ‘Baby, You Can Write Me a Letter’ my interest soon wanes. It is the melding of the primitive sounds of Beat Happening with that of Orange Juice that is the juice of their beat. Perhaps it is just drawing on my affection for both of the bands, but, I find myself drawn into this over other new American indie bands that have left me cold (stand up Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and the Oxford Collapse) and if you throw in some slabs of Pavement (Huggin’’) then they’re channelling some might indie muscle into their sound and totally getting away with it.

This is what indie-pop music should sound like: enormous fun to make and even more fun to listen to and when everything comes together – see ‘Love Astronaut’ – it makes for a blissful pop noise.


Date review added: Monday, January 07, 2008
Reviewer: David Cowling
Reviewers Rating:
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MP3: Murder Mystery - What My Baby Said
OK, this is going to be one weird “sounds like,� but stick with me through it. With this song, I picture something like an indie rock episode of Archie and Jughead, where someone makes fun of Interpol for always sounding like New Order, causing the band to nearly come to tears. So the band puts their comically oversized heads together, has a montage where they find some Buddy Holly and Phil Spector records, and comes out with this song, completely shutting up their opponents. Also, there’s some Favourite Sons in there somewhere. - You Ain't No Picasso

Murder Mystery
Are You Ready for the Heartache ‘Cause Here It Comes
(Murder Mystery, 2008)

Murder Mystery is one of the best new bands I’ve heard in a long, long time. On their first self-released album, now going nationwide, they achieve what every rock band dreams of: an instantly identifiable sound that’s uniquely their own. Bandleader, songwriter, guitarist, and singer Jeremy Coleman’s distinctive voice has a flat but melodic tone that suggests a more tuneful Leonard Cohen. His vocals are halfway between singing and speaking, but it’s expressive enough to imbue his lyrics with a forlorn quality that’s instantly endearing. Women are gonna love this guy. The rest of the band—multi-instrumentalist Graham Roberts, bassist Adam Fels, and drummer Laura Coleman (Jeremy’s sister)—have obviously listened to a lot of records, and they distill some 40 odd years of popular music into their style, from '50s street corner harmonizing to propulsive new wave dance beats, touching on funk, punk, and country along the way.

The album opens with “Who Doesn't Wanna Give Me Love?�, a puzzling, ironic tune about looking for love in all the wrong places. Coleman sounds both arrogant and bewildered, as if he’s genuinely baffled by his lack of female attention. Former guitarist Kevin Jaszek’s chattering, '50s style guitar dances around the vocal with a sound that meshes blues, country, and rock: a combination Chuck Berry perfected, but there’s only the slightest hint of Berry in his playing. He puts the elements together in his own way, and the hooks he drops into this and other tunes on the album lend the arrangements a bright, spunky flavor.

“Love Astronaut� sounds like a hit with a synthesizer hook that suggest the Velvet Underground gone disco, a basic kick drum rhythm, and propulsive, new wavey bass runs from Fels. Coleman bends and stretches the lyrics to fit the song’s skewed rhythm and when he sings, “I go looking for love, but is it looking for me?�, it’s plain that the answer is “no.� The band uses a country shuffle with a rock backbeat in “Think of Me�, and Jaszek’s solo blends distorted rock chords and country-flavored bent notes. Coleman delivers another ambivalent message to the object of his affection, promising to stay and go at the same time. “Honey Come Home� sounds like a lost doo-wop tune, with a hint of real happiness in the lyric and sweet backing harmonies from Laura Coleman and Jaszek. “Tell Me I’m Your Man� is a melodic pop/punk tune, part Sex Pistols and part Beatles, with another melodic solo from Jaszek. “Huggin’� has a vaguely Motown feel, where clanging country meets new wave guitar and a loping rhythm, while “Sooner or Later� combines surf guitar, a Latin rhythm, and Coleman’s most unrestrained vocals to impress listeners with the impossibility of true love.

The band’s sprightly rhythms make every tune a toe tapper, while Coleman’s ability to tarnish the silver lining behind every cloud adds emotional depth to the set. If the Talking Heads used '50s rock as their template instead of '70s funk, the sound might be similar to Murder Mystery’s, but that comparison is only a feeble attempt to explain what the band is doing. They’re really something special, and words can’t express how good their music is going to make you feel.
- Crawdaddy

Words by Sean Moeller // Illustration by Johnnie Cluney // Sound engineering by Patrick Stolley

There’s a comely aspect to all of the retrospective grooming that New York band Murder Mystery throws – in their own way — onto what they do. There’s a brain freeze that happens upon listening to Are You Ready For The Heartache Cause Here It Comes, keeping one locked into thinking about thick milkshakes, Beatlemania, bunny skirts and sock hops, but all as if they were happening as we speak – which means with oil and food becoming scary and scarce, with the New Kids on the Block making a comeback, with Annie Leibovitz getting unfairly chided for photographs that are boring and innocent and with music getting back to being a singles market where if you can give a killer hook, you’ll get yourself a few fast cars and gobs of silly fans who want to grab your stuff to put on eBay while snapping a photo of you with their iPhones.

Lead singer Jeremy Coleman suggests in one song that he considers his mind “dirty,� but he could fool a lot of people. From the sound of everything on the record and the new songs played for this session, he’s got a sense of chivalry, though his libido may be working two jobs to try and get to the point where it can settle down. Many of the band’s songs are searching pieces with the protagonist – assumed to be Coleman in some form or period in his life – traversing the seas and the milky ways to find that one girl who will make him a lucky man. He’s willing to be the sole breadwinner if he knows that his lady will be there at home waiting with a kiss and an appreciative hug, happy and content with what she has in her man. He’s willing to pilot a space ship through the galaxy if that’s what it takes to accomplish the same end. He’s relentless in his efforts to get this girl found and from the sound of things, it’s no exaggeration that this all goes on, that there is a primary agenda to find happiness in a girl. He’s a darling and a baby man, kindly stating that he’s on the prowl, but there’s no groping or insinuating that improprieties will come of a successful dig, just brute joyousness. These songs are about holding hands and pecks on the cheek, getting flush in the face when the girl smiles at you for the first time. These songs are about sweaty palms and timidity in the face of mustering enough courage to ask a girl out. All of the music employed to provide accompaniment to Coleman’s journeys is reminiscent to classic pop craft – of smart bass lines that send deep shivers through the songs, light bursts of guitar solo, primetime harmonies, laidback construction and short and sweet tendencies – making the easy connection to all of the work that The Beatles did, where, despite all of the complex compartments and layers, they always managed to make it come off as easy child’s play. Murder Mystery does the same thing in the way that the subject matter of girls is tackled. It never feels trite or just a surefire way to move a song along. It’s meant to be and when it works – as it does on every song – the results are fantastic and sort of whimsical, making it feel as if you’ve heard the song before, like you’ve lived it and loved it before, though you haven’t. They’re the kind of band that, completely unknown, could start playing at a barn dance in North Dakota or a tavern in Pittsburgh and receive the same favorable reaction to its likeable way of looking at probability. Coleman thinks in a big city way about the little fish and so much of his effort is placed on the idea that he’s always swimming upstream, against the current, moving with everything flowing beside him – the ladies, the sights. He’s lost, but he’s still always got his eyes open and that’s when the flood’s the deepest, when we’re all just a dot looking to stick to another dot.



First song
Love Astronaut (Murder Mystery) [2.76MB] [996 downloads]

[download this mp3 file]
– original version appears on Are You Ready For The Heartache Cause Here It Comes
It’s a definite crowd-pleaser — straight-ahead, feel-good pop. Simple chords, arpeggiated keyboard, really good bass lines and catchy melody. A lot of our songs have no lyrical cohesion, but this one does. It tells a nice story about a guy so lonely he feels like he is searching through the vast openness of space to find a companion. The song itself is much happier than that theme would suggest.

Second song
Lost (Murder Mystery) [2.14MB] [862 downloads]

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— unreleased
This is a new one, kinda as melancholic as we get, which is to say, not very melancholic. I love Adam’s bassline throughout the whole thang. We haven’t recorded it for real yet but I’m looking forward to it. I think it will come off well. Graham sings a nice harmony in the chorus and plays some nice things on guitar. It’s hard to describe your own songs.

Third song
Obvious (Murder Mystery) [2.14MB] [810 downloads]

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— unreleased
This is a new tune with a working title. It’s about bringin’ home the bacon but we aren’t gonna call it “Bringing Home the Bacon,� for obvious reasons. Its got a poppin’ bassline and dueling guitar solos and one day when we record it for real there may be horns on it. In fact, if you wanna play trumpet on it, e-mail us.

Fourth song
Think of Me (Murder Mystery) [2.75MB] [868 downloads]

[download this mp3 file]
— original version appears on Are You Ready For The Heartache Cause Here It Comes
This is the oldest of the bunch. It kinda sounds 50’s-ish, which I consider to be a good thing. I think one time some music writer described my solo in this song as “a whip to the face.� It was meant as a compliment for sure but, damn, music writing sure can be bizarre. Take a listen but be prepared, after the first chorus, cover your face.
- Daytrotter.com

Our old pals in Murder Mystery have kicked off the summer season with a couple of one-off releases. These new tracks offer an insight into a slightly new direction for this Brooklyn four-piece. The sprawling guitars that dominated 2007’s Are You Ready for the Heartache Cause Here it Comes and evoked comparisons to Pavement have been superceded by an easygoing electro-pop aesthetic. Over a buoyant set of synths and beats, siblings Jeremy and Laura Coleman take turns on the microphone for melodies that recall Stars and Belle & Sebastian. “I Am (If You Are)” and “Change My Mind” show a band brandishing its verstaility and, we hope, revealing a promising new sound for their next full-length. - Planet Magazine

Murder Mystery is back in the studio two years after the release of their critically successful, self-released debut album, Are You Ready for the Heartache ‘Cause Here It Comes. And in the midst of a crazy heatwave, the indie rock/pop gang from Brooklyn, New York, has treated us all to a mid-summer shower of coolness.
We’ve got two free downloads for you from Murder Mystery’s upcoming, currently untitled album: “I Am (If You Are)” and “Change My Mind.” In “I Am (If You Are)” their drummer, Laura Coleman, debuts her lead vocal talents. Both songs are upbeat and vibrant, and certainly danceable tracks that we, and the band itself, would describe as “Summer Jams.” Start listening to them now, and they’ll etch themselves into your memories of the Summer of 2010.
While in Are You Ready for the Heartache, the band appears to have played in a more classic indie sound that garnered comparisons to The Velvet Underground, the two tracks we have for you today are of a slightly different nature. They definitely pick up where the whimsical synthy hit “Love Astronaut” left off. “Love Astronaut” inspired no small amount of love from fans, not to mention a Youtube music video, which is full of ebullient, though not always precise, lip-syncing, and ecstatically sloppy dancing. A good and honest personal interpretation of the song, we’re sure. “Change My Mind” and “I Am (If You Are)” show not so much a departure from their earlier work, but rather what appears to be an embrace of what perhaps the band does best. Whatever the motive, the result is good fun.
We’re told to expect more from Murder Mystery, specifically another single called “Problems,” which they’re describing as “space-pop.” For that we’re eager. But in the meantime, enjoy what you’ve got: - Panel Magazine

Lately it’s been like Homecoming here at MOKB with old friends popping in left and right. It’s been ages since we’ve heard a peep from our pals in Murder Mystery, but they swear they’ve just been too busy to call, and are even ponying up two new tracks to help smooth things over. Because it’s Monday and I have a bumpin’ headache, I’m just going to let Adam from the band introduce the songs.

The first, I Am (If You Are) is the debut lead vocal performance of our drummer Laura. It sounds to me like a crazy collaboration between Stereolab and Madonna. The second, Change My Mind, combines the song craft of the Cure or Belle & Sebastian with the warm, bouncy synths of Aphex Twin’s Ambient Works.

Nicely put, Adam. - My Old Kentucky Blog