Green City

Album Review

K. Page's Brooklyn group promises a break from robotic indie rock. She's trained with Meredith Monk and performed with Rebecca Moore and Antony & the Johnsons, while members of the sextet have sat in with Wynton Marsalis, Oneida, and Ute Lemper. That's different! And though this isn't "Björk meets Nina Simone," as one person put it, Page's excitable banshee vocals, part Peggy Lee and part the Nuns' Jennifer Miro, are provocative, and the backing music is an amalgam of classic and avant-garde jazz, art new music, and rock. It's all sort of grating in an ambitious, ear-confusing way, like the evil allure of the Kaa snake singing "Trust in Me" in 1967's The Jungle Book — which they cover, stranger than Siouxsie & the Banshees 1987 cover. Not all of this clicks — the jazz inflections are more convincing than rock — but it's individualistic and unusual. ~ Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover, All Music Guide