Portland, Oregon's Rachel Taylor Brown is the illegitimate child of Peter Gabriel and Laurie Anderson. Okay, well, not really. But her music, which her promotional materials call "Pith-Rock" because it is "sharp 'n' pointy" or "spongy and permeable," has a strong sense of feminine identity, mixed with off-beat and cutting reflections on religion, child abuse, and social control. One of my favorite lines is (I think) about Jesus' death, where she says: "Drop the body, leave the ghost." It reminds me of the Godfather: "Drop the gun, leave the cannoli." I don't know know if that was [...]
Rachel Taylor Brown is a distinct artist. In a musical landscape in which so much sounds alike, she is immediately recognized, standing out like a singular sheath of crimson wheat in a harvested field. The difference doesn't stem from a particularly odd voice, quirky noise or twisted arrangements (most of her work is conventionally pleasing to the ear), rather it is as if she had been elsewhere, ignorant of modern trends in 'Americana' and 'Chamber Pop', and then here, with a new album that's real, present and distinguishable. If there's a thread of musical derivitive, it's [...]
Rachel Taylor Brown - Susan Storm's Ugly Sister [buy the album] Chairlift - Le Flying Saucer Hat [buy the album] fun. - At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used To Be) [album out 8/25] Mr. Scruff - Music...
Rachel Taylor Brown Genre: Alternative / Indie / Other From: Portland, Oregon, United States [...]
Rachel Taylor Brown from Portland, Oregon, has a thing with doomed superheroes of nearly every persuasion, especially if they are officially approved saints according to the Catholic Church. Throw in a quite horrible death et voila : inspiration for a song. Her new album Susan Storm's Ugly Sister and other Saints and Superheroes switches between comic books fantasy characters - Miss Storm is The Invisible Woman of The Fantastic Four and - and gory church lore like the story of Zoe of Rome, who was strung up from a tree using her own hair [...]
Jun 17, 2009, 11:14am
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Rachel Taylor Brown - "Susan Storm's Ugly Sister" Susan Storm is the Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four, and her superpower is that she can become, well, an invisible woman. Susan Storm's Ugly Sister, an invention of songwriter Rachel Taylor Brown, did not need to be bombarded with cosmic radiation to acquire a similar talent - she's simply found that her homeliness allows her to escape the notice of most everyone. The character is bitter and disturbed, and indulges in revenge fantasies in which she uses her "invisibility" to her advantage in murdering oblivious men. Brown's arrangement [...]
Rachel Taylor Brown "Susan Storm's Ugly Sister" Susan Storm is the Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four, and her superpower is that she can become, well, an invisible woman. Susan Storm's Ugly Sister, an invention of songwriter Rachel Taylor Brown, did not need to be bombarded with cosmic radiation to acquire a similar talent - she's simply found that her homeliness allows her to escape the notice of most everyone. The character is bitter and disturbed, and indulges in revenge fantasies in which she uses her "invisibility" to her advantage in murdering oblivious men. Brown's arrangement [...]
It takes courage to recognize and reflect upon past mistakes, especially if the circumstances were difficult to describe or overcome. It takes even more courage to share such incidents with the general public, with the intrepidness often intentionally resulting in effecting others' lives for the better. For 8 years in the early stages of her adulthood, Rachel Taylor Brown was a recluse, hidden away from society because of a nervous breakdown and a subsequent stage of depression. Unlike many young adults whose origins of depression trace back to their own personalized superficial issues, the main issue that drove [...]
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