About this title: Former Velocity Girl singer Sarah Shannon picks up her sporadic solo career with her second full-length. A huge improvement over 2002's spotty self-titled effort, City Morning Song is easily Shannon's most appealing record since Velocity Girl's Copacetic nearly a decade and a half before. The richly textured arrangements include strings and Burt Bacharach-style touches like muted trumpets and the major-seventh piano chords on the sweet and creamy ballad closer, "All We Will Be," but for all of the deliberate echoes of great, mature pop records of the past (Tapestry, Dusty in Memphis, ...
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Description: BRAND NEW. Lead singer of 90s indie-rock darlings, Velocity Girl, releases her second solo album further marking her departure from the guitar driven noise pop of her former band. Although her new release provides love songs in spades reminiscent of Burt Bacharach and Carole King, Shannon doesn't shy away from exploring darker subject matter. Groovy laid back beats, warm piano, sweeping strings and stately horns give these songs a timeless classic pop feel with the central feature of Shannon's ... read more
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