Coins

Coins....Angela's other band besides Sybris ......is quite the departure from it at first. To the outside it looks like a cold switch to intimate as well as powerful....dark, minimalist folk. Dark pop before being self-aware. I'm less familiar with Ellen's previous work Reds And Blue. The few times I've caught them its just them two. Their songs all share this haunting-without-intending-to-be-scary vibe. The ghosts of twins that wish you to have a nice innocent memory of their music, and not the vicious scar a proper haunting would be. I mean play this shit to the Ghost Adventures crew in one of them asylums and Zak will probably shit himself as his first reaction sure. But don't this sound beautiful.......like once your eyes get used to the dark and less afraid, more in wonder? Their voices depart and weave different structures with each track, and its great to just have the voices sometimes with a bare minimum of instruments. Some of these tracks evoke a beach camp fire, or intimate club performance.  Innocent haunting vibe that is just the air they breathe. If you like Ruby Throat, Coins can be for you. Yeah....you, lay off Katie Jane for a bit. Even her weirdness needs a break. Alien song is typical in how it weaves easily into the present mind feeling like a single traveling thought, a comet observed across the mental sky expanse. The whisper has a way of focusing attention. The mind quiets to see across the sky. I like how differently each song imprints. The first one to stop me cold was Cave Life. These are all on Recital Pressures. The songs stop you not to focus sudden light on the music themselves but often the captured together random racing thoughts. If you play take in the entire album. Well it just sneaks up on you. Town Below barely let me stop at a rest area to see that I already took in half of the awesome. Here's a random thought as I was hearing Bullghost..... If you are fan of Coins first, its reasonable to assume that you may like Sybris. I think if you follow an artists work, its great to see their other projects. Damn it....Forgive....please forgive. I don't want to sound like some sort of snob. To show the other sheds lights on the greater whole.  And I think its an interesting thing to see this in Angela with Coins/Sybris.
Zig