Mary Timony, Laura Harris and Betsy Wright are Ex Hex, named after an earlier Mary Timony solo album (her third) released in 2005. Timony has chosen a colourful path to her latest R’n’R with a Pop Art video splashed across the screen in bright reds, yellows and blues. It’s a record of rowdy guitars executed with a subtle […]
The interesting thing about what you like is not what you prefer but what deviates from the pattern. If like me you like lots of different types of music then perhaps it isn’t so strange to connect The Meters to Van Der Graaf Generator via Fred Astaire and this new band from one of my old, odd indie […]
I first heard Mary Timony after seeing her band Helium on MTV ‘s 120 minutes in America in the mid nineties. I bought the 1994, 7 track Pirate Prude EP (hilarious title I thought) and followed this with The Dirt Of Luck 1995 and The Magic City 1997. Helium formed in Boston where she graduated from […]
Mary Timony’s video for Dr. Cat from The Golden Dove seems to deal with madness or loneliness or both and the video’s conclusion must have made sense to someone? This rather special and eccentric track is a fine taster from a rather eccentric album. An originality that might have suited a European base more than […]