Great Independent Artists - Edie Carey
Over
the course of the past few years, I have managed to find a couple
great independent artits, and I'm going to start profiling them a bit here
to share them with others and hopefully promote good, non-RIAA art.
I stumbled opon Edie Carey on CDbaby.com while buying another indie CD, and really liked her stuff. Little did I know that Sara had also found Edie on MP3.com years ago when she burned me a custom "indie artists" cd for christmas.
I listened to her free sample playlist, really liked it, and got the full cd. Turns out, it's even better than the little snippits CDbaby gives you listen to. Very nice stuff.
She's gone from being a very ani-ish, "I recorded this in my bedroom" or at a show type, to sounding quite polished. I'm a big fan of production values, and this CD is very rich and never offends the ear while it's on.
As far as musically, it's a weird but wonderful mix of folk, pop, female-emo (femo? I think I might have just coined a phrase...), and *gasp* country.
The use of sliding melodies and a the subtle but refreshing pizzicatto of a banjo on many of the tracks give the album an open, airy feel that I keep putting in the playlist.
