You know you've got a strange sort of magic going on when a scratchy vocal by Tom Waits (on the reprise of the hypnotic, chamber music meets French cafe and spaghetti western title track) is the least bizarre element. The trio of Rob Burger (accordion, piano, pump organ, marxophone, harmonica), Carla Kihlstedt (violin, viola), and Mark Orton (guitar, Dobro, banjo) offer a vision of what a chamber music group might sound like if they mixed a studio session for a Western film with a rhythmically ...   [ read more ]

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Can an album with Ash Bowie (polvo) and Mary Timony be bad? Nay! While Helium's full-length debut THE DIRT OF LUCK wandered around the deeper crevices and netherworlds of the human soul, its second album THE MAGIC CITY finds Mary Timony's trio exploring an external, mythical world. Wearing its J.R.R. Tolkien influence on its sleeve, THE MAGIC CITY revels in songs of the medieval world; lullabies, romance and dragons and other fanciful, mythical beasts are all food for Helium's bizarre, quasi-Renaissance t...   [ read more ]

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Helium's first full-length album expands on Timony's feminist lyrical bent and adds more colors to the band's musical palette. Full of what Timony calls cartoon and monster movie music, The Dirt of Luck is a tight, focused album that is also diverse. The sludgy Pat's Trick mingles with the sweet-sounding and sweetly named Honeycomb, which shares space with the nasty-sultry sounds of Medusa and the shimmery drone pop of Baby's Going Underground. It's tied together by the album's spacious sound and Timony's ...   [ read more ]

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