COCOROSIE
La Maison de Mon Reve (Touch and Go Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Music critics everywhere have been peeing all over themselves over these two sisters' debut CD, and I guess that makes me part of the "in" crowd on this one. This disc is full of beautiful, quirky little badly-recorded middle-eastern musical numbers, what sounds like popcorn popping in a metal pot, police sirens, harp, piano, acoustic guitar, and a ton of things I just don't have room to identify that all work together to create a dozen wonderful little songs. Sierra and Bianca Casady pull a wide range of vocal stylings out of their hat on this, too, gospel and opera and off-key ramblings and spoken word pieces that are incredibly endearing and vulnerable-sounding, complete with idealist, neo-naive lyrics that sound like something out of a precocious sixth-grader's notebook.

© 2004 - Holly Day