
Tape music has been getting ever more popular and is certainly a genre on the rise. In ten years time we could easily be looking at Coal Beautiere as being some of the pioneers of this modern movement. Pianist and lead vocalist Adie has been playing since the age of six and it shows in her performance while the other half of the band, Art provides a bit of bass here and there. The piano driven songs can have a very quirky sound and the sometimes dark jingles are enticingly haunting. The [...]

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From the amazingly bountiful region in and around Nevada City, CA comes yet another achingly beautiful folk enchantress. Though their compatriots Alela Diane and to a lesser extent(sadly) Mariee Sioux have garnered more attention, the wonderful duo of Adrienne Spring Beatty and Arthur Harold Echternacht IV have crafted a bittersweet batch of folk-pop trysts. At once lush and yet wholly unfettered, their songs are doused in Adrienne's enveloping voice; while underneath a somber pianos weep quietly, then louder until a choir of background vocals answer their call in soothing tones of remorse and comfort. Again I have to kick myself [...]