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Artist: Ditty BopsBrand: DITTY BOPS
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-10-26
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Walk or Ride
- Wishful Thinking
- Ooh La La
- Sister Kate
- Breeze Black Night
- Gentle Sheep
- Pale Yellow
- Four Left FEet
- There's A Girl
- Unfortunate Few
- Short Stacks
- Wake Up
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Free Music Review: witty angels from outer space
Hit: 5 Stars
How wonderful it is to find a new group with something to say! Happy. Completely fresh, witty, coy matched closer harmony voices like angels. Funny clever lyrics, even if some song are too personal to be sure what they mean, it's fun to go along for the ride. Simultaneously silly, corny, foolish, smartass, hip, funny, clever, sensative, insightful, and awake.
This album is vaguely folk music oriented as a general genre, voices, guitar, dulcimer. Their second album is something like Texas swing, but these ladies are impossible to pigeonhole. Folk music from outer space? It is glorious to just bask in their Everly Brothers/Andrews Sisters type close harmonies and not listen to lyrics about love, eogcentric boyfriends. But when you do, you find they are witty, sharp as a tack.
A great deal of discipline was required to write and sing music like this, a virtue sadly missing from most of today's music. Acoustic and harmonic without synthesizers, sampling, and the variety of gismos that clutter today's music.
I think my favorite is "Pale Yellow", it's catchy tune sticks in your mind like glue. "Shimmy Like my Sister Kate" reminds me of 30's jug band music. Songs get stranger and wackier as they go along, but never dissonant or abrasive.
Perhaps their biggest problem will be finding which station to get airplay on. Which bin at the music store?
Highest recommendation for music and recording quality. Best new music I've heard recently.
Ditty Bops Poster
When Mitchell Froom (Suzanne Vega, Crowded House, Elvis Costello) produces a debut album, it is well worth taking notice. Thanks to their strangely beautiful voices, magnetic personalities, brilliant playing,bizarre storytelling and stunningly diverse range,The Ditty Bops ?the duo of Amanda Barrett and Abby DeWald ?earned his attention. A musical celebration embracing everything from contemporary folk pop to ragtime to musical theater, their self-titled debut is as gloriously unique as their name.As charming as the McGarrigle Sisters and pulsating as a scaled-down Lucious Jackson, Los Angeles duo The Ditty Bops call upon a 20th century grab bag of musical trends for the dozen songs that make up their eccentric debut album. Abby DeWald (vocals, acoustic guitar) and Amanda Barrett (vocals, mandolin, dulcimer) employ their effortless harmonies as instruments as they sashay through an influential spectrum that spans Bix Beiderbecke?s swinging twenties, through the Hot Club Quintet of France by way of Bob Wills? Texas Playboys, and into the contemporary experimentation of producer Mitchell Froom (Elvis Costello, Suzanne Vega). The lyrics may never garner a Walt Whitman prize ("Why does blood turn brown when it dries?" and "Why can?t white people play the blues?" the Bops wonder in "Wishful Thinking"), but they do offer the perfect, sing-a-long complement for the twosome?s intoxicating, foot-tapping melodies. Give the record three spins. You?ll know every song. --Scott Holter
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