Silas Hite
WHITE MURDER
“Harold’s Place” 7”
Tru-Vow
This is a super-group made up of members from some already awesome bands: Jail Weddings, Death Hymn Number 9, the Red Onions, the Commotions, even This Moment in Black History!?! And maybe I’m just a sucker for the simplicity and the dueling female lead singers, but White Murder might just turn out to be better than all of them. Anchored by Mike D’Amico’s fucking solid basslines, singers Hannah Blumenfeld and Mary Animal are free to roam around the songs. Singing in unison, their feminine, insistent vocals are framed well by the guitars and drums, especially on the B-side, “The Tell-All,” where the somewhat inconsequential lyrics are rammed into submission with sheer volume. But I prefer “Harold’s Place,” where the vocals remind me of what Patty Donahue of the Waitresses might have gotten up to if she’d joined a Riot Grrrl band in the 90s instead of dying of cancer.
—D.M. Collins
1 JAIL WEDDINGS @ HARVARD & STONE | L.A. RECORD // Apr 3, 2012 at 1:46 am
[...] very own Kristina Benson was in the chorus line as well, along with Mary Animaux, newly of White Murder (her co-singer in that band, Hannah Blumenfeld, was across the stage playing [...]
2 “Sleeves Where Legs Should Go” « D. M. Collins // May 14, 2012 at 4:18 am
[...] of Loopool, Gitane Demone from Christian Death, James Carman from Images, Marianne Stewart from White Murder, and Zache Davis from being just an awesome punk rocker with awesome bike ridin’ [...]
3 White Murder: Harold’s Place « D. M. Collins // Jun 5, 2012 at 2:43 am
[...] another great release from the giant Venn Diagram of bands that Jail Weddings presides over! Read my review at L.A. RECORD. Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this [...]
4 White Murder: Harold’s Place « Nuclear Rays From My Halogen Haze // Jun 9, 2012 at 5:26 pm
[...] another great release from the giant Venn Diagram of bands that Jail Weddings presides over! Read my review at L.A. RECORD. Like this:LikeBe the first to like this [...]
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