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“The funhouse hasn’t been this much fun in years.” - The New York Times
“Leering, provacative, smart, brazen as hell with a calliope twinkle.”
9 stars out of 10 - Vice
“Sharing a childlike fascination with dead things and arcane lore,Two Ton Boa sound perfectly suited to the films of Tim Burton...Sherry Fraser combines a love for discarded antique gadgets, an admiration of the grotesque and a celebratory joy within moments of ominous doom...joining the rock dark side, Fraser has imbued in this five-song mini-album a mastery of musical composition, sophisticated instrumentation and a sense of pure beauty and innocence....hints of junkyard cabaret, Led Zepplin heft, and Concrete Blond singer Johnette Napolitano’s exuberant wailing....Every bit of her enthusiastic gloom offers a glazed timelessness.”
4 out of 5 stars - Alternative Press
"This is a sinister rock pop song...perfectly suited for use on the soundtrack to “Cruel Intentions”. The lyric tells the story of a dangerous, slithery personality - “She’s got the truth and her tongue for a slingshot”- and the vocal melody slides from one note to another like a snake, completing the image. Drawing from the swing craze, a bouncy high hat traipses along over this track’s rumbling bassline and distorted organ and guitar, tempering its straight rock tendencies with a bit of kitsch. This song’s hook sticks like glue, and it should soon be scaling the charts in the tradition of other recent soundtrack hits." - Billboard
"...Fraser approaches the summit of peaks previously scaled only by the incomparable PJ Harvey." - The Pitch
"Sherry Fraser’s singular style of delivery is equal parts sensuality, bravado, and strength; she slurs and cajoles her luscious vowels and consonants amidst a bludeoning, double-bass carnival of sound. This, my friends, is what you always hoped punk rock would grow up to be." - Signum
“Charmingly aggressive...Loads of 1920’s decadent parlor/cabaret bluster and metallic stylized ugliness...tough and reality based. Brilliantly unexpected music, filled with unlikely beauties.” - Mole Magazine
"Sherry Fraser's Two Ton Boa was in fine form; the dual basses and carnival-like piano sounded great and Fraser proved that she really does have some incredible pipes. The distorted nursery rhyme-like tracks had a touch of graveyard goth genius, casting an eerie shroud over the audience...Hands down, Two Ton Boa was the best of the evening's events." - Splendid
“Two Ton Boa appeal to the part of me that believes in ghosts. Singer/bassist Sherry Fraser has been blessed with an amazing voice that can be eerie, sweet, defiant, angry, or funny...This album is an anomaly - I can play it over and over and over and never get sick of it. ****" - The Stranger, Seattle
Discography
Serenade for the Crow that Fell - Nov. 2004 - Vinyl 7 KRS
Fields and Streams - Porcelain Throne - May 2002 - Comp CD KRS
Turbos Tunes - Bleeding Heart - Jan.2001 - Comp CD KRS
Two Ton Boa - May 2000 - S/T Debut EP - Kill Rock Stars (KRS)
Cruel Intentions Soundtrack - Comin Up From Behind - March 1999 - Featured Soundtrack Single - Virgin/Atlantic
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Bio
Two Ton Boa is back! After releasing a critically acclaimed self-titled EP and touring the country with acts like L7 and Blonde Redhead, bassist and classically trained vocalist Sherry Fraser took a break to recuperate. Now she is back with Serenade for the Crow that Fell, an alternately moody and driving 7 that recalls the power of her earlier work and hints tantalizingly at things to come. This freshly recorded 7 showcases her new sound on the title track: at the same time delicate and muscular, while the B side - Your Favorite Bloody Patient, is an ironic yet frightening comment on body image in America in the form of a straightforward rock song.
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