8.30.2006

MUSIC - Persephone's Bees, "Notes from the Underground"


Notes from the Underground
is some damnably overzealous pop, slickly performed by Persephone’s Bees, but lacking the training necessary to balance such ambition. It’s all catchy, but since most of it’s slightly below average, this infection is more a plague than a blessing. Singer/songwriter Angelina Moysov shows plenty of promise—she uses enough of her Russian accent to make it a seductive tool, and her Russian folk-pop song “Muzika Dyla Fil’ma” is easily the best track on the album. Now if only someone could find a vaccine for her distractingly cloying pop….

Read on at [Silent Uproar]

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