Music: Our Saturday Mixtape fawns over female vocalists
- 1. Sally Shapiro isn’t this dance singer’s real name. But it doesn’t matter, because the icy synthy Italo of “Looking at the Stars” is awesome no matter who’s singing it.
2. The XX just got a killer review on Pitchfork, digging on their lean, mean R&B stylings, which remind us a bit of that Jesus & Mary Chain single with Hope Sandoval, “Sometimes Always.” Female vocalist Romy Madley Croft is front and center for most of the song.
3. Kate Earl sounds like she’s going to be a huge pop star – which we don’t mind, because she also sounds pretty awesome. The Alaskan perhaps is most akin to Regina Spektor (with more record scratches) on “Melody.”
4. Hearkening back a bit, Lush is one of many shoegaze bands to pop up in My Bloody Valentine’s wake, and the vocal layering on “Sweetness and Light” still sounds fawn worthy two decades later.
5. Really, would a list like this be complete without Kate Bush? She’s like the biggest icon of independent female songwriting, ever, and “Hounds of Love” arguably is her musical peak.source