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October 01, 2004
Ne Plus Ultra
Andre Ethier - She Will Never Be Your Girl
Andre Ethier is one of the lead singers of the Toronto band Deady Snakes, who released last year's 'Ode to Joy', an audio bricolage of garage rock, blues, and freakishly tight hooks. Andre got together with some of his friends, namely Messrs. Christopher Sandes, Pickles and Price, and recorded a solo album in late 2003, titled, appropriately enough, 'Andre Ethier with Christopher Sandes featuring Pickles and Price'. This track is the perfect example of what I would consider a musical 'miniature', and I'm not saying that just because a ukele figures prominently. It's what I would point to if forced, at gunpoint perhaps, to indicate the pop music analogue of a literary short story. The lyrics and music are as wrought and elegant as a piece of scrimshaw, carved for months and months at sea, down to its most vital and compelling essence. Ethier has one of those voices too- a little bit nasal and a little bit rough- that just complements this type of music perfectly. With lyrics like 'she holds you in her court/and she bars you like a fort', you know this is a heartbreaker of a song, and it is, all the way. It articulates that kind of arational crush that seems to metastasize your entire body, cell by infatuated cell, and ends up paralyzing you with (intimidated) adoration. Good stuff for late nights with cigarettes. [BUY]
Posted by matt at October 1, 2004 08:00 AM