Lily & Madeleine - Lily & Madeleine
Lily & Madeleine - ST My first contact with Lily & Madeleine was their short and sweet Tiny Desk Concert for NPR. Their instrumentation was pretty minimalistic and after the first few words, I knew why. Those lovely vocal harmonies don´t really need anything more than themselves. After the three songs they played, Amazon was the place to go and get what I had to own. Gladly their self-titled debut doesn´t disappoint one bit. But there is one thing that distinguishes the performance which I have come to love from their approach on their recording. I guess for the most musicians it is pretty natural: You play a blend of modern vocal centered folk music, so what you need to add for variation is different instrumentation. The sisters Lily and Madeleine Jurkiewicz followed this thought for their debut record or maybe, they were advised to do so. What you get is mostly the same blend of two honey sweet voices singing songs about love, relationship and even abstract ma...