'Til Summer Ends
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Record Label: Mother West
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*** 1/2 Bela, 'Till Summer Ends (Mother West)
Most bands who travel the dark corridors of the soul have had a hard time defining their own space with in the castle of artsy gloom rock. Especially those from Manhattan, where Lou and crew's Velvet Underground created an enduring template for such music with their biting guitars and cello and cynic-eye view of the demi monde and the inner life. What sets the east village-based quartet Bela, whose name and mood draw on both Lugosi and Bartok, apart is the way they put a little more movement in their chord progressions, giving ex-Rasputina cellest Julia Kent a base for more expansive melodies. And there's an undeniably poetic allure to frontman Jeff Hogan's lyrics. But what makes Bela pop is Hogan's brilliant flourish for vocal harmonies. It's right out of the Hollies cannon - if the Hollies were depressives. So heartaches and hauntedpsyches rarely sound sweet as in these 14 tunes.
-Ted Drozdowski / The Boston Phoenix
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Check out the new BELA single "Miami Beach" at motherwest.com From the up coming CD "Art Deco Smiles" Soon to be available at CD Baby.com
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Surf-goth: "Shades of notable Belas (both Lugosi and Bartok) color this band's eerie lushly orchestral melancholy pop" - CMJ. Certainly for fans of lamenting indie music that has really got chops as far as instrumentation and song writing.
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Awesome, different, cool........
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