Orange Nichole
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Record Label: Stereorrific Recordings
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An essential part of your complete pop breakfast!
Nichole started playing guitar at age 10 as a way to get out of cleaning her room one afternoon. She knew that her father would never force the issue of the cleaning if he walked by her door and heard her strumming chords from the Jim Croce songbook she had borrowed from him. It worked, she's still playing and her room is still a mess.
Nichole's musical performing career began in 1993 when she started playing solo gigs around Boston. This led to a two year stint in Greg Jacob's band, Weeping in Fits and Starts where one reviewer wrote she added a "Campbell Soup Kids" quality.
In 1995, Nichole left WiFaS to form Penguin with ex-Sumac guitar player, Dave Egan. Members of Penguin were never sure whether people came to their gigs for their bright, poppy songs or to hear their cover of "Love is Like Oxygen". Building on the pop sound of Penguin, Orange Nichole was born.
Produced by Pete Weiss (Willard Grant Conspiracy, Seks Bomba, Don Lennon)
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Charming gems
author: Thomas Schulte, WomanRock.com
This label has a vintage aesthetic and releases great indie pop records. One such fine example is the self-titled CD from Orange Nichole (Penguin). Such charming gems are here as "Coupon of Love" which marries a martial snare beat to reverb-drenched guitar and a saccharine teenbeat love song.
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Ooky sweetness 'n' light
author: Francis DiMenno, The Noise
..there ought to be room for dazed-sounding and slightly ooky sweetness 'n' light and if that's what you're looking for then you've come to the right place. Just remember that all aesthetic distinctions are really class distinctions. So file this under "music for well-off dilettantes educated enough to dig quirky lyrics but too hip to 'fess up to the fact that they dig strangeness for its own sake." Now, this kind of flimsy whimsy is not for everyone, but if you can put up with Van Morrison's mystic blather and with lots of smirky Go-Gos cheek and you dig a band like Pizzicato Five the most, well, this ain't them but it IS the kind of navel-gazing background music you can groove to in your express elevator to hippy-dippy nirvana (the mystic state, not the band). My picks to hit: "Sister" and "Tidal Pool."
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Fresh as a spring day in the '60s
author: Cheezeball Magazine
Loungy, jazz-pop
author: Mikey Dee, the Noise
Set to a loungy, jazz-pop feel (complete with vibes), there's no way I can ever hate a band that rhymes "Jupiter" with "stupider."
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