A new Dublin-based crowd called Mia Sparrow got onto me there earlier with their new for-streaming album. It’s lo-fi plinky-plonky stuff with slack-jawed vocals but has a kind of rough edge to it and plenty of lovely weirdness. It’s kinda sweet with a distant sadness in there somewhere, like seeing a haggard Hello Kitty buying hash off a scut at the bus station. There are some cool touches added here and there and I think I hear a stylophone (which will titillate or irritate depending on which side of the Rolf Harris fence you stand), and they’ve included my personal fave “Summer Slang” as a video below. The band are seemingly making the right waves in Dubland so expect to see them doing some of the festival circuit this summer.
Summer Slang
Mia Sparrow Debut Album ‘[mee-uh-spar-o]‘
Free stream/download at: http://miasparrow.bandcamp.com/
http://www.miasparrowmusic.com
