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Joey

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Released: Jan 1, 2009

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Joey
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Aphrodisiahoic
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Glorious Machine
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My Crazy
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General Info

Genre: Ambient / Experimental / Folk
Location New York, New York, US
Profile Views: 159031
Last Login: 8/28/2010
Member Since 8/7/2006
Website www.sometymeswhy.com
Record Label Signature Sounds
Type of Label Indie
Bio
.. .. .. .. ..Sign up for e-mail news about tours and new recordings..... .. .. ...... ...... .. .. .. .... New album ....Your Heart is a Glorious Machine.... (Signature Sounds) available now for mail order at the ..Sometymes Why On-Line Store.. and for download from ..CDBaby.......• • • .... Reviews....... .."The Crosby, Stills & Nash of the acoustic'n'harmonies renaissance... East Coast supergroup... captivating.".. **** – MOJO.... .."Outstanding opener from New York harmony folk supergroup... harmonies don't come sweeter".. **** – Q MAGAZINE.... .."These are three very astute modern women, who are self aware, and nimble of mind, and playful. [Glorious Machine] is a masterpiece of Victorian silk and lace... one of the most beautiful, sensual and at times passionate discs to grace the player in a long time. ".... – Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange...... .."Like listening to a dream. Each song sounds as if they were singing only to you." ....– Modern Acoustic...... .."While the ..No Depression.. types hails this trio as folk superstars, they pull their inspiration more from Liz Phair than Anne Briggs if the opening tracks is any indication---and it is. These seductive, folky femme fatales don't give wan, granola eating boys an even chance and will probably turn them into shoe gazers before this is over. This is the kind of stuff that could finally blow the door open on a new generation's folk music scare. Even if they do scare you away with their under the radar feistiness, these sirens are hard to resist.".... – Midwest Record.. ....• • • .... Our debut album ....Sometimes Why.... is also available for listening, download, mail order and review at our ..On-line Store... ....• • • .... More... .... .."At Merlefest, it's often the small sidelights that end up stealing the show – such as when O'Donovan, Andreassen and Ungar teamed up for an unscheduled Sometymes Why set last year in a parking lot on a sunny Sunday afternoon – 'my favorite part of the whole weekend,' O'Donovan marveled in retrospect. There's an instantly appealing quality to the trio-harmony blend of their voices, and in live performance they relate to each other with a charm and ease that radiates to the audience."....– No Depression...... .."...a sweetly artful new combo that sings about getting laid on tour and shit like that. "....– Time Out New York.... ....• • • .... E-mail the band: ..aeiou@sometymeswhy.com.. ..
Members
....Kristin Andreassen, Aoife O'Donovan.. & ..Ruth Ungar Merenda...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....
Influences
Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Bessie Smith, Concrete Blonde, King Wilkie, Homer, Zamfir...
Sounds Like
.."Hush Child" live at Banjo Jim's in NYC. Thanks to our friend Zena Barakat for the awesome video!.... .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... .."Aphrodisiaholic" from the Banjo Jim's show....... .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... ..... and the icing on the already intoxicating baked Alaska ... it's "Too Repressed" with special guest Chris Thile. Watchout explicit lyrics. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. ........Watch this short video of Aoife, Ruth & Kristin talking about the band and the new album. Directed by our friend Ballard C. Boyd..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... ..Here's "Cold Feet Blues" live at The Living Room last spring....... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... ....• • • ...... .."Watching a Sometymes Why show is like watching a Victorian magic show staged in a luxury hotel orbiting Ganymede.* There is an air of friendly sleight-of-hand and a sense of pleasant slippage... One is astonished, often moved, but one can never be sure exactly how these effects are achieved. ........Lost in the beauty of the music, one might startle to the presence of so many mere toys on stage. Entranced by the wordplay in the songs, one suddenly realizes that there is more silence than sound. And of course the magic of the three “Lovely Assistants” who of course require no other assistance to spin this spell......... One of my favorite bands ever."........- Darol Anger (March, 2008)......* Ganymede. /ga-ni-mede/ Astronomy. One of the Galilean moons of Jupiter, the seventh closest satellite to the planet and the largest satellite in the solar system with a diameter of 3,268 miles (5,260 km).