'I could not make it right, even with a seventh second chance'

Another acoustic girl for you guys today, and no I promise i'm not purposefully choosing these people. I'm staying completely faithful to this blog, but it just so happens the Purevolume enjoys giving me acoustic women. I really can't help it, I'm afraid. 

So make yourselves comfortable and listen to:

THE FEVERFEW

Wow that girl has really, really blue eyes. So anyway, if anyone ever wanted a band that epitomises the word 'Acoustic' these guys are it. Rarely showing off myore than a picked guitar melody and the simplest of drum beats this really is music as its most basic. And who ever said that was bad?

Second to acoustic the major theme in this band's music is folk, and boy is this music folky. If you can't listen to this music without picturing yourself in a gypsy caravan singing to your eighteen children, then you're doing it wrong. The voice that isn't quite perfect but draws you in with its simplicity and slight eccentricity, and the harmonies that really are perfect, but again slightly odd or complex (probably a better word) and that you wouldn't really think would ever come together to form a sound lulls you into some kind of hypnosis. Honestly I'm listening to the track 'Bernie' while typing and i keep on having to stop and just listen for a while.

Now in the last couple of posts you may have noticed i've been discussing serious business concerned with how different kind of music and genres appeal in different ways etc etc and i have literally just realised that, as i have probably stated and probably will state time and time again, technically this music does not belong anywhere in my collection. So maybe i could slot it nicely in between Florence and Goldfrapp (the folk albums), or maybe it could chill with Bat for Lashes, or even someone like Damien Rice. It could fit with a lot of different music, and you could listen to it thinking oh this is really similar to this band or this artist. But honestly it fills a place completely of its own. It relies on acoustic melodies and folky vocals that really are pretty standard right now, but at the same time seems to stand completely independant of them. 

Whether this is because of what i said earlier about managing to strip acoustic music down it it's real bare essentials, or because of the clever lyrics or complex harmonies, who knows. But this music really is the equivelant of trying to make ketchup from scratch. You know all the ingredients, and you can get as close as damnit to the real thing, but it's just not quite there. I know if i found a girl who could sing, sat her down and gave her a basic chord structure and some well thought out lyrics, we could sound pretty good. But i guess in a really roundabout and pointless way, what i'm saying is that this music is undeniably minimalist, but in no way do The Feverfew allow their music to fall into the ranks of the more generic acoustic duos .

Now please tell me to shut the hell up because i'm sure i'm now losing readers far quicker than i'm gaining them, the rate i'm going