Sister Crayon's EP was described to me by their publicist as
"a beautifully crafted trip hop record." Now the dude in question
is not normally prone to hyperbole when e-mailing me, but then again
in the music business, you take these sort of statements with a
grain of salt. On the flipside though I'm certainly not opposed to
trip hop, or dubstep, and in fact I often leave long mixes of either
streaming from YouTube in the background while I'm editing reviews.
After all I've just spent hours listening to hip-hop for my
OWN reviews, so some good electronic beat driven music
where I'm not analyzing the lyrical content is a welcome break.
I suppose in fairness I should say then that Sister Crayon's actual lyrics
barely registered a blip on the radar while I listened to the "Cynic" EP.
Terra Lopez and Dani Fernandez seem a fine combination - the former being
the vocalist and the latter providing the "beautifully crafted trip hop"
sound. A little investigation turned up that they released an album called
"Bellow" on a different label in 2011, which must have been at least some
degree of success for Fake Four, Inc to recruit them into the fold. A good example of their
trip hop styling can be heard on the third track "Floating Heads," which
you can actually see them performing live below:
It's an up tempo affair, with Lopez' vocals echoing off the walls of the
recording studio (or at least mixed to seem that way), giving her a lilting
angelic quality - she seems to float over these trip hop beats as opposed
to blending into them. Fernandez and Lopez clearly have a good chemistry.
And unlike dubstep, which can at times be electronic and jarring, this UK
invention is more like what would happen if you mixed soul music with rap
and 1960's acoustic folk. Think Portishead and Massive Attack. That's the
trip hop sound, and it's a sound Sister Crayon has clearly mastered.
Music Vibes: 7 of 10
Lyric Vibes: 7 of 10TOTAL Vibes: 7 of 10
![[Cynic EP]](../coverart/crayon-CynicEP.jpg)
Sister Crayon's EP was described to me by their publicist as
"a beautifully crafted trip hop record." Now the dude in question
is not normally prone to hyperbole when e-mailing me, but then again
in the music business, you take these sort of statements with a
grain of salt. On the flipside though I'm certainly not opposed to
trip hop, or dubstep, and in fact I often leave long mixes of either
streaming from YouTube in the background while I'm editing reviews.
After all I've just spent hours listening to hip-hop for my
OWN reviews, so some good electronic beat driven music
where I'm not analyzing the lyrical content is a welcome break.