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"Drummer Dave Bartels is all grown up - or that's how it seems when you compare Oakland's Isabellas to his previous band, the Sweet Nothings. Just months ago he was tripping over sweaty bodies at Oakland house parties while singing for the sloppy, ultrafast punk act, but he now focuses on Isabellas, a female-fronted midtempo rock band reminiscent of Pretty Girls Make Graves. It contributes a much-needed uniqueness to the East Bay punk scene, whereas the Sweet Nothings only embellished the overrepresented pop-punk style. For the house show averse, don't worry: Isabellas thrive on a stage, where there's little to no risk of interacting with other people's sweat or spilled beer. (Alex Felsinger) check it out for y'rself." --San Francisco Guardian "Isabellas are a new-ish rock and roll outfit - a power trio - that has a low-fi, anti-emo sound to their music. Their self-released debut, "Partner, Don't You Pull No Guns" is a jingle-jangle, non-teen-pop album; their music is for the hipster, uptown set, a sophisticated crowd, but it is as much for the kind of people who are just as comfortable sitting at home, in their room, lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, zoning out while listening to some cathartic music on the stereo as those who get their excitement by prowling at some dark, Goth Danceteria or neo-hippie coffee house somewhere over by the university. The people, the crafty, clever people who make up Isabellas are: Adam Waite, Dave Bartels and Chloe Martin, the front woman, who writes all the lyrics (the music is written collaboratively) and sings the vocals in her fragile, breathy voice, but it's a voice that belies a certain inner strength and a depth that starts to sink in by about the time you get to "; Chloe has a melancholy and a quietness that masks a depth of soul within; a happy, pretty face that covers up lots of angst on the inside, but a trooper who plods on because it's better than being dead." --Reviewer Magazine Web site: http://isabellas.feacs.org |
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