Word: melodye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buttercup plays in and around the Boston area and their label Orr Records is located downtown on Lincoln Street. The lineup is pretty straight forward. Jim Buni and Mike Leahy take care of vocal and guitar-playing duties, and share the singing with Colleen MacDonald, who also plays bass. Dan...
Buttercup... The name says it all. The band's silky, milky pop is as sweet as the name. And Love-who can argue with that? It is happiness condensed into 40 minutes of audio bliss. These masters of sweetness fall somewhere between Matthew Sweet and R.E.M. on the pop/rock spectrum...
Sharon Smith's Reverence, with Kissel's delicate and sweet rendering of melody, illustrated just how surmountable these limits are. Keiko Abe's Memories of the Seashore provides another example, a fittingly nostalgic melody in the lower register performed with great sensitivity to contour and phrasing. Kissel's treatment of...
Kissel's own Reflections of Us, introduced as "short, but says what I want to say," was indeed just that, a brief, meditative piece dominated by a single, poignant melody. Predominantly homophonic, registral spacing and changes in tempo demarcated the basic two-part form. Though perhaps a bit too short...
Recovering from this dead-beat track, Shaggy resurrects Mianite Lover with the song "Sexy Body Girls." The title is slightly sleazy and less than appealing to the feminist consciousness but the track itself makes up for any labeling deficiencies. "Sexy Body Girls" is real dance-hall reggae. This is Shaggy...