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Struts and Shocks by Seana Carmody
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fave it Quirky | Progressive Rock
10 tracks | 32 minutes
Released Oct 2003
on Kimchee Records
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Ex-Swirlies and Syrup USA gal's first solo album features shoegazing proggish pop with guts and heart.
Editorial review
After detouring into hobbit rock territory with the short-lived Syrup USA, Seana Carmody returns to the dreamy noise-pop of her Swirlies years on her excellent solo debut Struts and Shocks -- at times, in fact, the disc's fondness for dense, churning guitars and celestial atmospherics seems to suggest the past decade never happened, and the shoegazer sound never went away. Carmody's fragile, sleepytime voice is put to far better use here than it ever was in the Swirlies, however, and her ingratiatingly melodic songs are models of economy, with all but the epic closer, "Stay Awake," hovering around the three-minute mark. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
It's been a few years since the world has heard from Seana Carmody. She was known as the sweet vocal center of the experimental noise-pop Swirlies in their early '90s heyday on the Taang! label. Seana led that band to their place as the pre-eminent American purveyor of the Shoegazer sound from that mini-era. In the mid-'90s she founded Syrup USA, and her songwriting blossomed in the realm of that band's keyboard and synth-heavy pop sensibility. Their jingle-jangle fantasy-rock found its perfect expression on the Flydaddy Records release All Over the Land. That vehicle disbanded in 1998. In the four years since Seana took a break from band life but continued writing songs. Now Seana re-enters your rock universe in a big way with her dazzling solo album Struts & Shocks.
Struts & Shocks is fully representative of where Seana has been in her musical career and who she is now.
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