The Lickets are an experimental group of folk musicians centered around the multi instrumentalists, Lena Buell, Mitch Greer, and Rachel Smith.
Often difficult to describe, the collective is described as a "transcendental mini-orchestra", and their work has been called "empyrean, luminously beautiful" and "Haunting, eerie, and altogether unique".
Like a crazed mix of Krishnas, von Trapps and musical merry pranksters Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes are blazing a path through the music world.
They got so much buzz midyear that I avoided them. That buzz usually translates into a softer sanitized rock like the band Phoenix, The Decemberists or the Shins and a whole shitload of others that are devoid of innovation and soul.
So...their first album came out in July 2009 and is fun and exhilarating. It's full of rich melodies and upbeat lyrics. I'm excited about them the way I got excited about Arcade Fire and Fever Ray. (They didn't propel me to "Yeasayer-excited", but hardly anyone else can do that.)
Lead singer Alex Ebert was just flat-out born to be a front man. Tall, dark, and lanky, his expressive eyes smile as he holds court for an appreciative audience with ants in his pants -- my, oh my. Alex and muse Jade Castrinos sing to each other and she warmly blends the vocals with him on some of the tunes. She's a talented, solid singer but she's a wee bit too effing happy for me. Almost like she's done some acid and can't get rid of the "grins". Do U No wuddamean? Apologies to Lee Michaels; yes, saw him, too.
NYC psych merchants Yeasayer have signed to Secretly Canadian for the North American release of their highly anticipated sophomore album. The follow-up to 2007's All Hour Cymbals (which was released on We Are Free) is called Odd Blood, and it will be released on February 9, 2010. Mute will release the album outside of North America.
Yeasayer will preview Odd Blood at a show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City on October 30. A special light show is promised. (Ooh!) They'll also hit up the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin on November 7.
Odd Blood tracklist below:
Odd Blood:
01 The Children 02 Ambling Alp 03 Madder Red 04 I Remember 05 ONE 06 Love Me Girl 07 Rome 08 Strange Reunions 09 Mondegreen 10 Grizelda
YAY!! We knew this album would be ready in early spring but didn't have a date or a track list. So excited.
The previous 2 cds have seen me through thousands of miles and entertained many of my friends. This group is exceptionally talented and uniquely melancholy and that, my sweetness, is a good thing.
It wasn't long after 9/11, September 11, 2001, that I began this website. I felt compelled to connect with other people around the globe. I had recently heard about "weblogs" or "blogs" and I dove right into Blogger.com.
I searched for others to connect with online and I found Ageless. It led to meeting many great friends to discuss events of the day. From then on it snowballed.
Most importantly we offered one another support and friendship across the globe; finding that we were just a few keystrokes away.
The Lickets 
