From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #1225 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, October 3 2014 Volume 16 : Number 1225 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Lydia Ainsworth's Right from Real [neile ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:26:07 -0700 (PDT) From: neile Subject: Re: Lydia Ainsworth's Right from Real We've been loving the samples we've heard. I'll be picking it up after work today. I think I said last week it feels to me like Happy meets Emily Bezar. I hear some Hannah Fury in there frequently, too, and Kate of course. - --Neile On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Tim Jones-Yelvington wrote: > Have y'all heard this yet? It's awesome. > > From Pitchfork's review: > > *Right from Real* is orchestral pop in the vein of Kate Bush > and Bat for Lashes > , albeit from an artist > who would cite a love for Meredith Monk and Giuseppe Verdi's *Requiem*in > the same breath. Ainsworth isn't as experimental with regards to her > songwriting approach, though, nor is she so spiritually cathartic. Much > like the Knife 's *Silent > Shout* , *Right > from Real*exists in a dusky, cobalt-hued twilight, after the real world has > drawn its curtains closed and before the mystical realm starts to come > alive. The music illustrates those enchanted hours in detail with > soft-sweeping strings, modest electronic tinkering, pointed spates of > percussion, and Ainsworth's confident, versatile self-harmonizing. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #1225 ****************************