Search - Owls :: Daughters & Suns (W/Dvd)

"Sunny, pretty, sexy ambient pop from co-vocalists Maria May and Allison LaBonne and the latter's husband, Brian Tighe of Hang-Ups fame. It's like Stereolab melded with the Kinks' Village Green." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Gracefully explores the vacuum left behind when they escape, like helium from a popped balloon afloat somewhere between Sarah Records and Past Masters Volume Two." -- Pitchfork Three songwriters--Brian Tighe, Maria May, and Allison LaBonne--come together with drummer John Jerry and special friends to create an unlikely musical voyage aboard ships, carnival rides, and airplanes, trespassing through backyards, into human resources departments, and down perilous roads into the distance. Bitter yet life-affirming, The Owls console comic strip characters, invent the perfect man, party on the eve of the apocalypse, explore the notion of empire, pay their bills by candlelight, and send flowers into sewers before bidding listeners a rousing adieu. Rich with melody and male/female harmonies, Daughters and Suns tenders buoyant, laid-back pop with gentle strikes of lightning. While The Owls' sound is hard to pin down, LaBonne and May's songs seem reminiscent of the Velvets combined with the vocals of Laetitia Sattier and Mary Hansen of Stereolab. Tighe and Ittner's songs seem to honor McCartney and Lennon, respectively, and all of this lends to the best thing you've drank your coffee to in a while.