Blog: Hyperbolium

Bewitching rock, girl-group and indie pop Sarah Borges has always been one of Sugar Hill's most surprising roster artists. Her 2007 label debut, Diamonds in the Dark , harbored some atmospheric steel moans, but the chewy pop center of Borges girl-group, and rockabilly was so citified as to be virtually unrelated to the typical Sugar Hill string band. Her covers of X ("Come Back to Me") and Tom Waits ("Blind Love") mated effortlessly with the exuberant Lesley Gore-styled vocals of Greg Cartwright's "Stop and Think it Over," a convincing [...]

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