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Lavender Diamond

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By: Alibastard | in: Music |

There is something funny and sincere about Lavender Diamond. Beginning a song by repeating the phrase, “You broke my heart” for a full minute does something – becomes overstated, unnecessary and then becomes sincere again. You get over the musical cliché, you say, “Yeah, actually, this girl got her heart broken and wants to sing about it. But its such a god damn cliché she has to say it like twelve times before we can really get that its not just some bad excuse for a lyric.”

Lavender Diamond

Lavender’s warbling leading lady just about conjures 60’s liberty-woman music, loves it, uses it to do more than sneer, and yet makes something entirely outside of Joan Baez. Musicianship behind her delicate vocals is reminiscent of some of Nico’s backdrops, less self-consciously orchestrated.
And though Lavender may be best as backdrop itself, there is still something refreshing about bands who are not ashamed to at least appear candid, especially in the realm of calling the world beautiful, or polishing something trite until it makes a diamond.

You Broke My Heart

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Posted on February 8, 2007

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