April March builds bridges between French and American musical traditions, displaying an uncanny awareness of pop's past and present as well as a capacity to transport the listener to strange places. Drawing from antique as well as modern French and American pop traditions, colliding the synthesizers of today with timelessly lush orchestrations, "Triggers" plays on several levels, its sweet melancholy rubbing against wild abandon.[ read more ]

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A departure from April March's previous solo albums, April March Sings Along With the Makers is much more along the lines of the shambolic {punk rock} of her records as lead singer of the Shitbirds. The album is a true collaboration with Spokane, WA's [ read more ]

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Recommended! More French goodness from American-born April March, aka Elinor Blake. Don't believe us? The New Yorker named "Chrominance Decoder" one of the top ten albums of 1999. "There's something sexy about a girl that sings in French (both linguistically and stylistically), but besides Elinor Blake's charming pixie voice, the star of this show is producer/arranger/composer Bertrand Burgalat, who has put together a feather-soft but substantial bed of trippy music that heightens the image of April March a   [ read more ]

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A departure from April March's previous solo albums, April March Sings Along With the Makers is much more along the lines of the shambolic punk rock of her records as lead singer of the Shitbirds. The album is a true collaboration with Spokane, WA's the Makers, who ignore the grunge explosion entirely, preferring to focus on the snotty garage rocking style of earlier Pacific Northwest heavies like the Kingsmen, the Wailers, and the Sonics. The songs are as stagey as March's pre   [ read more ]

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This collaboration between April March and the Southern California band Los Cincos is a pleasant listen, often sounding like a mix between the Cardigans and the Ventures. March's nice vocals glide over the most mature music Los Cincos have ever recorded. Adding depth to the record is the violin playing of ex-That Dog member Petra Haden, whose playing is perfectly suited for this material, especially on the album's centrepiece, "Last Train to Christmas." The highlights include a ne   [ read more ]

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