Life sometimes throws up magic combinations like cheese and marmite or pineapple, coconut and Bacardi. Aurally speaking one such magic combination is a gentle female voice over often ludicrously overdriven guitars. Lots of bands we admire were making the most of this combination in the 80’s and 90’s. Personal favourites include My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Belly and The Breeders. Unlike your X-Factor winning divas the likes of Miki Berenyi, Bilinda Butcher and Tanya Donnelly were not great technical singers, instead they sounded real and were not only singing their own music, but singing music that was also special, breathtaking, ground breaking and very cool. Check out albums like Loveless, Gala, Star and Last Splash coming from labels like 4AD and Creation. Just thought I’d blog say how much we liked and miss bands like this.
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