jangle pop Archives - She Makes Music https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/tag/jangle-pop/ Focusing on the best new music made by female-identifying and non-binary artists. Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:33:36 +0000 en hourly 1 https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-SMM-Logo-Black-1-32x32.png jangle pop Archives - She Makes Music https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/tag/jangle-pop/ 32 32 Lightheaded announce debut LP Combustible Gems; share new single/video ‘Dawn Hush Lullaby’ https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/news/lightheaded-announce-debut-lp-combustible-gems-share-new-single-video-dawn-hush-lullaby/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lightheaded-announce-debut-lp-combustible-gems-share-new-single-video-dawn-hush-lullaby Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/?p=8667 Lightheaded are, simply, a great pop group. Their songs are full of melody and harmony, are bittersweet and memorable, familiar yet original. Their sound is a perfect mix of jangling guitars — featuring Sarah Abdlebarry’s exquisite, tasteful, but punchy Gretsch lead played over Stephen Stec’s Rickenbacker chime — anchored to singer Cynthia Rickenbach’s Hofner Violin

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]]> Lightheaded are, simply, a great pop group. Their songs are full of melody and harmony, are bittersweet and memorable, familiar yet original. Their sound is a perfect mix of jangling guitars — featuring Sarah Abdlebarry’s exquisite, tasteful, but punchy Gretsch lead played over Stephen Stec’s Rickenbacker chime — anchored to singer Cynthia Rickenbach’s Hofner Violin bass, which sounds like the bass on Michel Polnareff’s first LP.

Their debut LP Combustible Gems – is an LP about a band finding their sound, exploring notes, chords, and melody and making uncannily great music along the way. First single ‘Dawn Hush Lullaby’ features an electric folk-pop sensibility that starts like a waltz, but goes into Greenwich Village pop time, like a sweet Norma Tanega tune. The album drops May 17 via Slumberland.

Stephen says of the track: “I didn’t think of the title ‘Dawn Hush Lullaby,’ I found it. Awhile back, I had fallen for someone with a really lovely voice who lived far away so we would be texting for hours, but I could read her messages in her voice and replay our conversations in my head. I was alone one night, scrolling on Tumblr, when I saw a post from 1934, where Wilfred J Funk listed the ten most beautiful words in the English language. The first three? Dawn. Hush. Lullaby. And that’s just how her voice sounded.”

Combustible Gems:

  1. Always Sideways
  2. Dawn Hush Lullaby
  3. Moments Notice
  4. Still Sitting Sunday
  5. Bright Happy Girls
  6. Hugging Horizons
  7. You and Your Mother
  8. Because of You

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]]> Tallies share new single ‘Special’ https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/new-music/tallies-share-new-single-special/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tallies-share-new-single-special Wed, 25 May 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/?p=754 The Toronto-based band, Tallies are sharing their new single, ‘Special’ which comes as another preview of the band’s forthcoming second album, Patina which is out July 29 via Kanine Records (US), Hand Drawn Dracula (Canada) and Bella Union (UK/EU). Speaking about this new single, Sarah of the band says: “‘Special’ is about longing to be

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]]> The Toronto-based band, Tallies are sharing their new single, ‘Special’ which comes as another preview of the band’s forthcoming second album, Patina which is out July 29 via Kanine Records (US), Hand Drawn Dracula (Canada) and Bella Union (UK/EU).

Speaking about this new single, Sarah of the band says: “‘Special’ is about longing to be seen and heard by those who matter to you most. Sometimes feeling invisible is particularly painful when the indifference comes from someone whose opinion means a lot to you.”

The juxtaposition of light and dark is a strong theme in the music of Tallies and certainly apparent once more with this new single, ‘Special’ – another fine example of their gliding, shoegaze-adjacent jangle-pop reminiscent of The Sundays, Galaxie 500, Ride, etc. While many of their songs are upbeat, with Frankland’s breezy guitar lines drenched in reverb, soaring over Cian O’Neill’s propulsive drumbeats, Sarah’s lyrics can add a hint of shadow to even their most jangly tunes.

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