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09/06/06, 12:05 AM
so solid!
check out the review from Absolute Punk, 9/10
Lemuria/Kind Of Like Spitting – Your Living Room’s All Over Me
Release Date: July 4, 2006
Label: Art of the Underground
Lemuria
You can’t help but smile listening to Lemuria. The Buffalo three-piece are just a lot of fun. It doesn’t hurt that Sheena Ozzella closely resembles every bespectacled cutie I’ve ever fallen in love with on the other side of the coffeeshop counter or in the vinyl section of the local record store either.
Heavily influenced by the work of 90s punk-rockers Discount, Ozzella’s delivery is decidedly less snotty, though otherwise identical, to that of frontwoman Alison Mosshart. It’s less abrasive because it has to be. At first glance, one might even call Lemuria’s brand of punkless (not punchless) pop “sterile”. That is, up until you hear Ozzella drop the f-bomb amidst the rollercoaster pacing of the split’s opener, “Hours”. Not since Jenny Lewis asked her emphatic question on “Glendora” has a female vocalist cursed with such panache. The stuffy-nosed warble of Jason Draper makes him a more than capable second vocalist. Coupled with Ozzella’s very feminine tone, they deliver a fanciful duet on “Sophomore”.
Is that a Nick Drake album in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?: “Hours”, “Sophomore”, “Bristles and Whiskers”
Girls! Girls! Girls! And guys!: Rilo Kiley, Discount, The Headlights
Rating: 9/10
check out the review from Absolute Punk, 9/10
Lemuria/Kind Of Like Spitting – Your Living Room’s All Over Me
Release Date: July 4, 2006
Label: Art of the Underground
Lemuria
You can’t help but smile listening to Lemuria. The Buffalo three-piece are just a lot of fun. It doesn’t hurt that Sheena Ozzella closely resembles every bespectacled cutie I’ve ever fallen in love with on the other side of the coffeeshop counter or in the vinyl section of the local record store either.
Heavily influenced by the work of 90s punk-rockers Discount, Ozzella’s delivery is decidedly less snotty, though otherwise identical, to that of frontwoman Alison Mosshart. It’s less abrasive because it has to be. At first glance, one might even call Lemuria’s brand of punkless (not punchless) pop “sterile”. That is, up until you hear Ozzella drop the f-bomb amidst the rollercoaster pacing of the split’s opener, “Hours”. Not since Jenny Lewis asked her emphatic question on “Glendora” has a female vocalist cursed with such panache. The stuffy-nosed warble of Jason Draper makes him a more than capable second vocalist. Coupled with Ozzella’s very feminine tone, they deliver a fanciful duet on “Sophomore”.
Is that a Nick Drake album in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?: “Hours”, “Sophomore”, “Bristles and Whiskers”
Girls! Girls! Girls! And guys!: Rilo Kiley, Discount, The Headlights
Rating: 9/10