SYLVIE ON GREY'S ANATOMY
author: GREY'S ANATOMY FAN
hey! By Heart was used last night (10/9) on Grey's Anatomy! Awesome.
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critics reviews
author: Matt Searle
"The London-born chanteuse's wry, worldly twist on relationships springs from numbers styled in cabaret, jazz, ragtime and waltz, held together by her rapturous, dusky vocals."
- Los Angeles Times
"...Los Angeles-based Briton Sylvie Lewis may not cultivate the sort of willful peculiarity that has helped garner headlines for Nellie McKay, but in many ways, the music she makes on Tangos & Tantrums , her debut album, is every bit as striking... thanks to Lewis's conversational flow... and supported by her band's spare yet colorful orchestrations... If Lewis's subjects are effectively variation on time worn themes - head-over-heels romance, lost love, dissolute partners and so on - her perspective is distinctly of the moment."
- Time Out New York
"...Sylvie Lewis delivers songs in a meandering style reminiscent of Rufus Wainwright, with a sweetly expressive voice... her piano-laden debut disc, Tangos & Tantrums, is filled with tales of lives and loves."
- New York Post
"[Tangos & Tantrums] is a sophisticated pleasure, full of jazzy, droll songs that burst the balloon of fairy-tale romance... and are unafraid to serve up a smidgen of sentimentality along with the cocktails and show tunes... Lewis is ripe for discovery."
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
"...potentially the Next Very Big Thing in the world of dulcet damsels who reign the radio: Sylvie Lewis. "
- POPMATTERS.COM
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Sort of like a yummy chocolate fondue
author: Gareth
Sylvie opened for the Weepies show I went to a few weeks ago, and she's great. Very simple and acoustic, *awesome* voice, sharp songwriting, and a totally classic French flavor. Reminds me of Julie Delpie's songs on the Before Sunset ST, with the rhythms a bit more upbeat and the lyrics more world-weary.
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A few words from the press....
author: TIME OUT NEW YORK
TIME OUT NEW YORK
February 3-9, 2005
SYLVIE LEWIS
Tangos & Tantrums
(Cheap Lullaby)
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A worldly blond ingenue of indeterminate age comes from seemingly out of no where, bearing arrestingly literate sentiments draped in instantly memorable tunes cut from classic-pop cloth. Los Angeles-based Briton Sylvie Lewis may not cultivate the sort of willful peculiarity that has helped garner headline for Nellie McKay, but in many ways, the music she makes on Tangos & Tantrums, her debut album, is ever bit as striking.
That’s not to suggest Lewis is entirely devoid of quirk. In place of lyrics, her CD booklet is filled with diary entries, anecdotal asides, drink recipes – an impressionistic ramble around the outskirts rather than a road map to the heart of town. That’s okay: You won’t miss a word, thank to Lewis’s conversational flow, which colored with a touch of Sundays vocalist Harriet Wheeler’s appealing girlishness and supported by her band’s spare yet colorful orchestrations. (And besides, the lyrics are all on her website.)
“All his exes throw a party/ On his birthday every year,” Lewis sings in “All His Exes,” from the perspective of a wary girlfriend. “They reminisce and drink champagne / I make sure I bring my own beer.” If Lewis’s subjects are effectively variation on time worn themes – head-over-heels romance, lost love, dissolute partners and so on – her perspective is distinctly of the moment. Even “My Rival,” a gloss on an old Kipling poem, seems both contemporary and familiar in her hands. - Steve Smith
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