Gem Club: Christopher Barnes (voice/ piano) and Kristen Drymala (cello)
This year I resisted the temptation to put my cool-o-meter up for public scrutiny by compiling an end of year ‘best of’ list.
I do however feel the need to flag up an album that could easily be passed by and disappear without trace.
Gem Club’s Acid And Everything came out of nowhere (well, Massachusetts actually) and made big impression. I say why in my review for Whisperin’ and Hollerin’.
It’s a record that makes a nice dreamy soundtrack to the post Yuletide lull that hits most people at this time of year.
It is available to download here – last month you could have got it for free but it’s worth $7 of anybody’s hard earned cash. If you err towards caution, you could get two of the five tracks (six if you could 50 seconds of birdsong that opens the EP) for nothing from Last.fm.
Or you could also let the images and sound of the video for Spine wash over you :
