lost between the cracks: Emily Sparks
Probably named after the Richard Buckner song is Emily Sparks, a female-fronted indie band from Austin.
Through a round-about set of circumstances I started listening to their myspace songs a few weeks ago and finally got their album, What Could Not Be Buried, over the weekend. It’s fragile-voiced acoustic indie singer songwriter stuff. Pretty simple and pretty great.
“I, Aquarius” is a nice finger-picked guitar song. The lead singer’s (Jet) voice is almost a whisper here. It’s got really nice space to the instrumentation while the vocals feel really intimate.
Emily Sparks - I, Aquarius (mp3)
“Let It Show” is a similar song in instrumentation and general overall feel. It’s still really lovely. The whole album doesn’t stick to this same feel, but I decided to put up my two favorite tracks rather than making sure I showed the range of the album.
Emily Sparks - Let It Show (mp3)
You can buy the album at amazon.
July 7th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
what could not be buried is an awesome album! it came out when she still lived here in providence…. an extremely shy lady (i aquarius originally came out on a benefit for a homeless shelter and she’s credited as being bridget on that one.) i was at her cd release party and sat like six feet away from her and couldn’t hear her singing. but what a good record!
(although my favorite song of hers might be down in virginia, from the second volume of that same homeless shelter benefit….)