Saint Bernadette
Music for when the zombies take over
Should the zombie apocalypse take off, I’d be all set. My house has an attic. The kind of attic with a drop down hatch for the stairs that you can pull up and close behind you. Zombies would never be able to get to me and my family because they aren’t equipped to deal with the complexity of lowering the hatch to access the staircase. Get in a bunch of canned goods, lots of bottled water, little camping grill, and we are in business.
However, let it be known that the safehouse which will be my attic will not be open to all comers in need of protection. See, once the zombies have passed and it’s time to reconstruct civilization, I will do so with a handpicked group of individuals who I feel humanity would be worse off if they became brain-craving shamblers. So joining the asylum of my attic will be on an invitation-only basis.
With that in mind, I’d like to extend the first invitation to Saint Bernadette, with whom I completely fell in love with last year with their In The Ballroom album. Amidst purring old school refrains injected with edgy post punk guitar work for modernity’s sake, Meredith DiMenna’s voice soars in both range and emotion, and such a voice will be a necessity once the ambitions of Shirley Bassey and Beth Gibbon turn to feeding on brain. At times dreamy and ethereal, other moments are crunchy and confrontational, the music DiMenna and her partner Keith Saunders concoct bounces from inspiration to genre with adroitness, which makes them more than deserving to share my attic space.
And since I was granted permission to offer you a song from their upcoming EP I Wanna Tell You Something (March 4, people!) in complete and utter pre-release shine, Saint Bernadette has just secured their place on the top bunk.
MP3: Saint Bernadette - One In A Million
www.saintbernadettemusic.com
myspace.com/saintbernadette
Comments
February 29th, 2008 | 6:41 pm
Awesome!
Post a comment