Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Signature
Sounds Records) - Three beguiling female musicians Aoife O'Donovan, Kristin Andreassen, and Ruth Ungar Merenda, together known as Sometymes Why, will release their sophomore record Your
Heart is a Glorious Machine on the venerated Signature
Sounds Recording label. The album will be unveiled on March 10, 2009, building on the success of their self-titled release in 2006. The seductive incantations offered on their newest release seizes listeners and continues to widen the spell cast on audiences since Sometymes Why's inception in 2004.
Your Heart is a Glorious Machine picks up where the debut recording left off musically and the trio's magic vocal blend is omnipresent. What began as casual harmonies while touring on the same bill, Sometymes Why has grown into a band all their own, modern sirens hypnotizing audiences the globe over. Your Heart is a Glorious Machine also showcases the maturity unfolding in these complex and vibrant women in the midst of a folk renaissance.
Sometymes Why members, both as a group and individually, have nurtured international success, garnered critical accolades and have inspired a loyal following. Each of the women play a major role in other contemporary folk and bluegrass bands: Crooked Still (O'Donovan), Uncle Earl (Andreassen) and The Mammals (Merenda). The collaboration makes Sometymes Why a supergroup to those who have been paying attention to the recent folk movement. These artists and their collaborators are prodigious contemporary musicians, vaulted by tastemaker publications such as No Depression and London's Sunday Times who credit them with a modern folk and string band revival.
Sometymes Why's music is not strictly folk or alternative bluegrass; more akin to Jenny Lewis or Feist than their other projects, the trio weaves funky standards with their own sensual ballads to create a sound all their own. The women refuse to be classified by their voices or by outdated feminine mores and the songs explore pansexuality through the palpable texture of their lush harmony work. Following in the footsteps of strong folk females, the captivating energy comes simply in the chorus and confidence of delivery. Their stripped-down treatment is evident on the album's single, "Joey." Made popular by Concrete Blonde in 1990, Sometymes Why's cover is aching, and desires to charm the antagonist down the path of recovery.
Known for seducing audiences with their live performances, the songs on Sometymes Why's Your Heart is a Glorious Machine have an ethereal quality that allows the femme fatales to take center stage. The album, produced by Jose Ayerve (Winterpills, Spouse), was recorded in Dreamland Studio, just outside of Woodstock, New York. The studio is a storied location in upstate New York and is quite different from the DIY tone of their debut recording Sometymes Why. Despite the new studio location, much of the album is loyal to the stage performance of Sometymes Why.
In the future, the women will continue work and foster future collaborative energies, a dynamism the trio finds most rewarding. In 2009, Sometymes Why will take to the road and perform nationwide to support Your Heart is a Glorious Machine.
