Artist: Lia Ices Album: Ices (2014) The place where music is written and recorded doesn’t always permeate the sound. But when you know that Lia Ices third, eponymous album was recorded in a floating glass box of a hotel penthouse, with views of the Manhattan skyline across the Hudson, her luxurious fusion of spacious electronica, playful tribal pop and layers of breathy vocals make perfect sense. It’s the third “sound” in three albums for Ices, a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter who deserves to be more widely heard. A graduate of both NYU’s Tisch School for Experimental Theatre and Rada, her adventurous debut, Necima, recalled Regina Spektor, while the strange, sparse folk of Grown Unknown (2011) drew comparisons with St Vincent and Cat Power. Holed up in her glass box on and off for two years with her “psychic twin brother Eliot” and their midi keyboards, guitars and computer, she has emerged with a style that carries faint echoes of La Roux and Tom Tom Club. She describes some of it as “music I wanted to dance to”. Although the quirky tessellation of rhythms on lead single Higher might make you think twice about getting onto the dance floor, the unusual beats and interlacing melodies coax your limbs into free-flowing momentum. (from telegraph.co.uk (9-12-14)) youtube/watch?v=JLnIy2iThAE
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:44:41 +0000
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