WE'LL SHIP WHEN IT'S BACK IN STOCK

                            
Break is one of my favorite new CD's!  I can listen to it from start to finish, without skipping any tracks.  The whole CD is fantastic.  I enjoy it's refeshing variety and soulfullness.
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August 28, 2003 
Brontë Rock
Celia , a singer-songwriter based out of Northampton, sings wastrel white girl blues folk rock, along the lines of Fiona Apple but with an odder, janglier inflection. She seems to be one of those deeply introverted people who, rather than write bad poetry, or fall into narcissism, has found a way to tranform her oddly-calibrated perspective into art. 
Break , her new album, is pretty great, drenched in a hothouse atmosphere, like something by Apple or Tori Amos, but distinguished by more complicated beats. There's a little bit of Mary J. Blige in there too, and many of her songs could, with little dissonance, accomodate an MC rhyming through the resonant vocals. 

If she sounds two-thirds as good live as she does on her album, her show at Harry's on Sunday, the second of what seems to be a series of CD release parties, it'll be worth the five bucks.
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Celia plugs in. 

Pioneer Valley singer-songwriter Celia turned to two of Berkshire County’s top songwriters and producers for help when it came time to record her second CD, “Break,” the release of which will be celebrated in concert by Celia and her band (including guitarist Sue Burkhart of Superkart, guitarist/keyboardist Jim Weeks, bassist John O’Boyle, and drummer Chris Ryan) on Sunday at Club Helsinki (413-528-3394). Bruce Knowlton and Robby Baier lend instrumental and songwriting support on “Break,” which kicks off with “You Make Me High,” an insinuating piece of Jane Siberry-like techno-folk. The album includes other electronic-tinged folk numbers that also draw upon the services of Baier’s Melodrome bandmates, like “Magical” and “White Trophy,” and one crunching rocker, “Hell Is in Your Mind,” but Celia also mines her rootsy, bluesy side on acoustic numbers like “No Good Man” and “100 Women.”
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"the cd" sounds great and sits firmly in my Top 10 for 
the year.
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