“People have told me that they can’t quite identify my influences. Me neither. The foundational layers of music of the past and my past have been metabolized like breakfast and turned into more me, sorry to say. But I experience the music of people I’m connected with and it impacts me in the moment.”
— Karina Gill
Bedroom pop quartet Cindy return this month with Swan Lake, an EP of softly spoken yet firmly grounded ditties. Citing some of the Bay Area’s recent wave of indie artists as influences—April Magazine, Sad Eyed Beatniks, Violent Change, Katsy Pline, Flowertown—Cindy’s songwriter Karina Gill is well aware of how this music fits into this place. Slow, hazy, foggy, and dreamy is how we described Cindy’s release from last year Why Not Now?, and the same holds true here. And isn’t it a rare thing to not constantly be changing for the sake of change? There are a couple upbeat pieces, a gorgeous instrumental (“The Birds in Birmingham Park”), a dollhouse waltz of egg shaker and triplets (“The Bell”), and a Velvet Underground-esque poetic detour (“Swan Lake”). In short, Swan Lake is a sound world worth curling up inside. Out now on London label Tough Love.
See Cindy play with The Reds, Pinks & Purples this Friday, October 11 at the 4 Star Theater.
