With a name like Lisle Mitnik (the spacecraft captain of FIREFLIES) you would think that I may be writing about another foreign pop act. But in fact, Lisle is a Chicago based song writer and composer and of course musician who likens his music airy and floating like fireflies over a moonlit pond.
Combining his influences such as The Smiths, Field Mice, Belle and Sebastian, Air and plethora of mellow goodness, Lisle aka Fireflies creates songs that voyage through his instrumentation that carry on like quiet sea waves while the wind blows by effortlessly through time.
Fireflies has self-released three albums, Coucher a la Belle Etoiles (2003), Chansons du Metro (2004) and The Forest (2005). He will also be releasing an album on Swedish labels Music Is My Girlfriend and Lavender Records. Let’s hope we can some how entice him to release an album here in the states.
Check out a tune from his self-released The Forrest and his delicious cover of Air’s “Cherry Blossom Girl.”
MP3: “New November Leaves” Cherry Blossom Girl“
Website: http://www.gis.net/~fulgore7/fireflies/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/fireflies
Purchase: Fireflies
Label: self-released
Sometimes having too many great singles prior to a release of an album may mar it’s presence by having the anti increased. The Mary Onettes prior to releasing their self-titled debut unleashed two blazing singles, the ever so 80’s “Lost” and the guitar driven “Void.” With two top notch singles, it’d be hard to have an album full of hits.
With all of the attention that Sweden gets the majority of the time, there are some Scandinavian neighbors that always seem to get left out. But hailing all the way from Finland, Cats On Fire’s debut The Province Complains is a nonstop ruckus of jangly guitars from start to end. The obvious influences such as The Smiths, Orange Juice, The Cure are all over the album.
There I am on a Friday night, I enter the theatre and unexpectedly it was quite full…with no one younger than 45 years old…weird huh? Oh well.
British pop sensations Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring are about to invade starting off with their precious single “A Qustion Of Trust.” Lush and harmonious and nostalgic like a slowed down version The Beach Boys, “A Question Of Trust” reminds me of when pop singles were pop hits of the 60’s. Chiming xylophones and clean guitar strings being strummed “A Question Of Trust” is the right song to present Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring to the masses. The charging choruses going “ahh ahh/ahh/ahh/ahhhh” in the background will have shivers going down listener’s spines giving them a bubbly feeling in their hearts.
