The Great project: Entry 5
This album came across my desk when I was the program director at KBVR, Oregon State University’s radio station. Apparently, it is the Canadian sister’s third album, but is their first of any consequence to indie rock and my life. Technically they play folk-rock, but So Jealous is full of tight, repetitive pop harmonies. The girls sing in high-pitched voices and can get annoying with multiple listenings, especially because the songs are so repetitive. But, it is good music. Great pop.
These girls finish second on the list of “music overused on the first two seasons of Gery’s Anatomy.” They are right behind Psapp, the group who did the theme song. I’m pretty sure every song on this album was played at some melodramatic, over-emotional moment on that show… and I’ll be damned if I didn’t like it a little. Anyway…
I like this album for driving. It plays through a couple of times without me noticing and is good to mindlessly listen to. “Walking with a Ghost,” was overplayed in my college days though. And, this album spent most of my relationship with a past girlfriend in her car, so there were long periods of inactivity on my car stereo. Not that it was horribly missed. But you know…
They are cute, but that won’t make me keep this CD. I think that I could survive with a digital copy and let this one go. Frankly, my copy is a promo copy sent to the station. I think we got multiple copies or some sort of godless, soul-less promoter sent me an extra. Whatever.