Jolie Holland, Jessie Sykes, and Angela Desveaux sing slow dreamy songs of love and loss, displacement and the haunting feeling of wanting to be somewhere your not. Country, folk and blues interweave these women's beautiful spare voices proclaiming hurt and repair, movement and stasis.
Jolie Holland
"Holland writes with a soft focus and a sharp edge (and sometimes vice-versa). Springtime Can Kill You takes this approach to a transcendent level. Holland’s sepia-toned song noir and billowy voice are in rare form as she weaves ethereal tales at a crossroads where haunting meets joyful—hers is a voice from the heavens singing stories of the underworld. The songs rise and fall like heavy eyelids and convey the peace of a place between asleep and awake. Sounds from past and present-tense waltz together to a never-ending melody that flickers between folk, jazz, blues and pop as Holland’s characters and situations play on surrealistic celluloid" Jolie Holland's Website
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Angela Desveaux
"Heartbreak is the most common theme in country music, but not many singers can evoke it at first breath. But Angela Desveaux can have you weeping at her opening lines. The melancholy Montrealer excels at both radio-friendly roots rock in the Lucinda Williams mode and the dead slow, haunting heart-wrenchers best experienced during post-break-up 3 a.m. drives. Her debut, Wandering Eyes, draws equally from both." From: Exclaim
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Jessie Sykes
"There's a desolate beauty in the floatiness of the melodies... Jessie Sykes "OH, MY GIRL exploits a spare but refined folk rock palette to paint richly detailed evocations of love gone awry....[The album] accurately captures the weary throb of heartbreak..." MOJO
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