Amanda
Easton’s career goes way back, back to songs like Skin, Celebrity,
and Falling In, but "Out of the Blue",
her latest crowd-funded 5-tracker, shows how she has grown as an artist since
our first meeting back in the 90s.
Back in the 90s I was full of praise for the sounds she was
producing, and today she has grown so much from and with it. The work with the Pop Tarts,
the lounge sounds of the Basement
and Taronga
Zoo, her work in the mainstream with names like Matthews, Reyne, Clapton, Powderfinger, and Hines have all helped generate the
work behind her latest release:
Out of the Blue Track
by track-
- Dance
to the Music in my Head
Sexy, sultry- generates the vision of someone softly swaying with their eyes closed, a gentle smile on their lips .. slowly builds.
- Moshi
Moshi
I had visions of Japanese pop with this one, that crosses Britney with Kylie, and in a good way, akin to her own early work.
- No
Bolt Out of the Blue
No she certainly is not! This could be a TripleJ track, given the contents of the Hottest 100 in the last few years. Brit-Pop meets Alt-Aus in the vein of Regina Spector, Sara Blasko, etc.
- The
Whole Shebang
Very Dusty / Sandie / Cilla with her own je ne sais quoi. Her press release says that the girl-singers of the 1960s had been “disregarded as relevant to [her] type of music” but, having recently been introduced to it by Damian (Celebate Rifles) Lovelock, she’s certainly let the influence show in this and the next one.
- Good
Old Fashioned Heartache
A gentle swinger, this time in the vain of the Spector Wall of Sound with more of that Dusty / Sandie / Cilla for good measure.
Life has been full of ups and downs for Amanda and her
family, something to which I can relate, and hopefully there’s more good than
bad in the future for them all! "Out of
the Blue" is certainly a fine example of where she’s been, where she is, and
perhaps, where she’s going.
Very nice! «««
peterg
24Mar13
