Girl Detective...I know its way, way late!

Went to see Girl Detective at Reggies Monday 27 August.  Where the bloody hell was I when this Chicago duo started out. Apparently they have quite the number of gigs behind them. I'm supposed to be on top of this! I missed their Late Bar performance. But I got the CD to listen to. They are Rani Young who sings and Jason Oppman who on stage plays guitar but also all the other instruments on the recordings. They started the band in May of 2010. Once I started to look them up is when all the reasons to keep researching just piled on each other. Before you hear anything you take note of all the influences they reference. Siouxsie, Cocteau Twins, The Cure, DM, New Order/Joy Division.....It takes some holy will power to ignore this. All these references gotta mean something, and so enters Girl Detective into my radar. Now that we have our common references down, how about some others less known sisters that deserve to share a pantheon with Girl Detective.
     Remember Great Expectations with Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow? This band Mono had a song in the soundtrack called Life in Mono....they always used it in the trailer. We really need to build more pantheons and that means reaching all the way back to the late 90s. In actually listening to the songs I'm reminded of the local Rosen Association, and whatever happened to Sunday Munich?  At the very least they inform as to what comes out of Chicago even if it does not last. The idea of local pantheons I think can provide longevity. ....This was a train of thought started long ago and never finished until now. The whole paragraph as a relic of thought, holds up. I was going to say pretty much the same thing believing it was spontaneous the second time. I wrote this down and even uploaded the pictures from this one show. And it bothered me that I missed all other shows and so this sat unfinished.

And then I met her formally at the SMW show at Debonair. It was a good time hanging with them after when the place resumes its dance floor music.  It was cool, I felt at ease. I should have taken pictures of them dancing, but I did not want to be intrusive but included.  So meeting her makes me look up Rani's music, and to finish a chain of thoughts. And so I do have a CD, Dress and Smoking      The title track has voice distant, because you cannot find a source. Its kind of everywhere, a casual clear ethereal presence.    Entrance  has Rani's  dreamy voice hover over the more solidly laid keyboard in . You feel like there is a consequence to a moment just around the corner.  And that's the piano keys gassing out for a moment the drums until they pick up again. You feel that tension and Rani just outlasts the tension. Hovers over it until it evaporates. Life's a Movie is where they snuck in that male voice.  I like it. They got the tension building keyboard that washes and changes. The CD I bought I believe had five tracks but my ipod only shows three. Hmmmm, no. I'm not gonna turn over this place just to look for one fucking actual CD. These are the songs I like, and this post has been sitting for far too long. I don't know if I will ever see Girl Detective, in the meantime, I do know that Rani will sing for Dream House which I like and will continue to see.
Zig