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Life In A Blender come equipped with a violin, cello, horns, and a touch of absurdism, bringing a vaudevillian energy to their much-loved stage show. The New Yorker says: "The band's new album, The Heart is a Small Balloon, is rife with Ralph's signature wit, but it is also a richly reflective affair that exudes a poignancy and maturity one might not expect." The NY Daily News says: "The band's orchestrated music is a covert beauty, cleverly disturbing lyrics and askew music....an event worth cheering." Jersey Beat calls the band's latest: "A terrifically dark and despairing work of beautifully bleak20and burnt-out oddball art."
Tonight's CD release is for Life In A Blender's 7th album, Homewrecker Spoon. It will feature Colony Collapse Horns.
The Debutante Hour keeps its musical roots in American country, blues and vaudeville while letting their lyrics run the gamut from absurd to sublime. Susan Hwang and Maria Sonevytsky switch fluidly between accordion/keys and hobo drum kit while Mia Pixley holds it down on the cello as the unconventional girl group harmonizes, Andrews-Sisters-style, about planning, worldviews and works of literature, with the occasional swerve into a Carpathian mountain stomp.
Their debut album, "The Birth and Death of Meaning," was released last year to rave reviews. They were featured as one of Deli Magazine's artists of the month in 2010, and they're coming out with a brand new EP of covers, titled "Follow Me" (which includes a collaboration with rapper TK Wonder) to be released in March 2011. Both recordings are produced by Franz Nicolay.
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I've seen Life in a Blender a few times and each time I've found them to be musically compelling, smart, fun and enjoyable. Also, they always seem to come up with new material so each time has been different.
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