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Singing Bridges is loud.Singing Bridges is quiet.Fuzzed out guitars and solid rhythms create a familiar sound balancing feelings of dark heaviness with hopeful light. Singing Bridges manages to encompass influences including Joy Division, The Wedding Present, Sonic Youth, The Pixies.
We call Connecticut home - the “in-between state” that most people speed through on I-95. Our songs are hopes and fears of tenuous life. New England’s abandoned factories and pollution remind us of an idyllic past of plenty – boom times when war meant production, prosperity. Drive just a few minutes off the Interstate and see a beautiful forest, nature continues to press on, no matter what humans decide.
Singing Bridges echoes this push and pull. Our namesake is a balance between man and nature – steel grate deck and suspension bridges ease the flow of more and more people, but this design can also sing for us. Steel suspension cables, designed to be flexible and to adapt with nature, sway with the wind, eventually singing a symphony of harmonic noise.
With enough equipment for a few extra people, Singing Bridges piles on the amps for a big sound from a trio of guitar, bass and drums.
Here are some review highlights of our EP "Three Trains":
Das Klienicum
This trio offers five tracks, with William busy on drums, and Christine cheerfully handling the bass as well as sharing vocal duties with guitarist Tim. Something happened since the band’s debut release, “Sunny Day, Rainy Day.” The transformation, which consisted of more than just the band line-up, was worth it. Jangle pop … in its finest possible form.
CT Indie
Singing Bridges' Three Trains EP harkens back to the days of early 90s jangle pop. The 5-song CD is full of reverbed-out female vocals, jangly rhythm guitar, and a glimpse of sonic experimentation. Simple, straightforward songs like "Crazy Street" hammer the point home and show they definitely have an ear for the genre.
Tasty Fanzine
Simple melodies are layered on top of each other, simple chord progressions flow effortlessly and vocals are unaffected and sung as though by the pure of heart . And if you don’t try to indulge in 7 minute guitar solos then you can put all your creative efforts into putting something together with love, something that might actually move someone - that my friends, is what it is all about.
Common Folk Meadow
There are lots of indie rock bands out there but I fell in love with just one of them and this is Yo La Tengo which I love with all my heart and soul. That’s it - ok, lots of other bands are good but not as great as Yo La Tengo. But now I’m in hope that Singing Bridges could be the second indie rock band in my life and I’m looking forward to great releases and beautiful music in the future.
What makes me sure of it? I think the whole musical style makes me sure because they remind me of Yo La Tengo and I don’t mean, that they copy them, but I think they really get the feeling for combining Indie Rock, a little punky attitude, noise elements and great singing.
Pennyblackmusic
…they mention Sonic Youth and The Wedding Present among others, and the opening track ('Bee') and the closing track ('Disappear') is not far away from the former of the those two bands. On the three songs in between, they mostly sound like a classic twee pop band, especially on 'Crazy Street'.
GOSH, THIS MUSIC IS JUST KILLING ME. I LOVE IT - KRAMER
Some reviews from our first EP, "Sunny Day, Rainy Day":
@ Indie mp3
The band features William and Christine - the people who run the Skipping Stones Records label and who organise the annual Popfest now into it's 5th year. The Sunny Day Rainy Day EP is their début release.
The overall impression of the EP is that this is how The Breeders would sound if they played lo-fi indie pop. It's very harmonic and the shared female vocals, reminiscent of the Deal sisters, gives it a very strong focal point. As for the production you take the rough with the smooth here but I like the coarse sound of the recordings especially on the stand out track On Y Va which is sung entirely in French. At other points in the EP you hear traces of shoegaze, folk and echoes of long forgotten bands all which hopefully point towards the promise and expectation of greater things from the band.
Pennyblack Music
If you're a true romantic, this harmony-drenched,breezily strummed four-song confection will have you smiling as you picture a young Brigitte Bardot freewheeling down a sun-dappled French country lane on her bicycle, blonde locks billowing out behind her.
The heartless misery guts, however, will envision a drippy trainee infant school teacher, staring out of her bedsit window and still yearning over a boyfriend who dumped her three years ago.
We laugh in the face of cynicism, so we're demanding you go for the the former. In between wondering, that is, what mood stabilisers a band needs to be on to make their happy tunes sound so pleasingly wistful and the sad stuff so candyfloss sweet? And can you get them on the internet ?
