Umbrellas
-guess who's back, back again. Kayjal's back.. tell a friend-Got my com back in action and with my songs intact! woohoooo sheer genius man. sheer genius.
Anyways i was cruising the Indie Music scene wondering who to review next. Arctic Monkeys have been in the Singaporean papers , as have Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - and everyone knows the Dandy's. Then i remembered a band i'd been downloading just before my com threw a hissy fit on my. Umbrellas
On their official website you can read the origins of their seemingliy dorky name. Writing and recording Umbrellas(2005) in many different motels influenced their music and this resulted in each track sounding vastly different from the others.However, the entire record has a haunting, mleodious undertone residing in each track, following the songs throughout the album - as did the spiders in the motel follow the band giving them all the impression of broken umbrella's. Hence the source of inspiration for their name.
Tracks like Broken Ice and Emergency have an inate beauty in them, which speaks to you as you listen to these tracks.The City Lights has claimed the coveted place of most loved track on the album, but even the darker songs like The Black Dress and Vampire don't fail to impress and leave an impression on you.
Lines like " that validates those churches inside you" and " i always tell myself to be patient. you can't control the situation" and "you can't keep living as if you're dying. I'm dying" carry a beautiful poignancy to them.
The rest of their tracks include songs like, Reactionary, Set The Scene, Comfort in Suffering and The Exit. And just because i didn't mention them doesn't mean they're not equally excellent. I'm just enamoured with Emergency right now.The only song that i felt like skipping over was Ghost. But check it out,who knows.
You might like it.
This wasn't supposed to happen.Umbrellas were a free-form collaboration between paralleled souls, and wasn't intended to be a band that will eventually tour and put out records. This fact in itself tells the tale of the mystery, contrast and echoing beauty in the writing of the collective known as Umbrellas - from [url]http://www.umbrellasmusic.com/index2.html [/url]
More about the band: Frankly this has been one band that i have not been able to get information about. Except the BASICS. I'm not even sure where they originate from - but i'm guessing somewhere in New England as they tour Massachusetts alot. Its a trio - Scott, Brandon and Xavier and their music label is the militia group. [url] www.themilitiagroup.com[/url]
more than this you have to find out yourself. And if you find a site with their proper Bio's in it - tell me? peace out.
posted by kayjal sandya @ 10:54 PM
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