Music'For want of a better word' 2005 available through itunes, chaos music and cdbaby'City Keepers' 2009 released through MGM on September the 18th www.myspace.com/citychariot Reviews Forte Magazine - Reviewer Kim Porter Heart-worn and weary like early Lucinda Williams, yet at times ethereal and minimal like Mazzy Star*. Sparse, barely-there instrumentation to fully-fleshed arrangements with powerful bass lines and thudding drums. City Keepers features great lyrics, stunning guitar work, from both Kim Dellavedova and musical partner/producer, the redoubtable Scott Wilson, along with crying steel guitar from the wonderful Garrett Costigan. Bass work is by Amos Sheehan, drums by Roger Bergodaz. There’s also guest appearances from Dan Sultan, Sime Nugent and Ian Collard. Kim Dellavedova has been playing around Melbourne for the past few years, although she took time off to write the songs for City Keepers in Montreal. It must have worked, because this is an awesome bunch of songs – a little bit country, a bit swampy blues, and a whole lot of late night – late night lust, late night tensions, late night longings and regrets. City Keepers standouts include the great opener, ‘Dapper Dan’, (killer opening line; “He saunters like a swinging gate…”), ‘Borrow My Love’ and ‘All The Plates’, (two of the best songs Lucinda Williams never wrote!), ‘No Good For Me’, (beautiful acoustic and steel guitar simplicity), ‘Red Ford Falcon, (Ian Collard’s wailing harmonica), and the sly ‘Sleeping Charms’, which will sneak up on you and plant itself in your brain, causing you to sing out loud at wildly inappropriate times! City Keepers was launched last week at the Toff In Town – now you’ll have to wait until the middle of next month before Ms Dellavedova, and her fabulous songs, is back in town.   |