MAHOGANY
The Dream of a Modern Day (Burnt Hair)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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"She sounds like a bird," says my son, and proceeds to run off trilling high-pitched crazy into his bedroom; I suppose he's singing along. And it's true, she does sound like a bird-lead vocalist Allysa Massais has a soft voice that sounds more like she's singing along with the sounds the instruments make instead of having the music follow her lyrics, echoey, dreamy ambient landscapes punctuated by cellos, synths and the occasional melodica. While there are apparently 11 separate tracks here, the construction of them makes it sound like there's really just one long beautiful, spacey song on this, occasionally broken up by pauses that signify you're actually going onto something new.

© 2001 - Holly Day