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It takes artistic courage to be this lyrically honest and musically experimental. Shimmerplanet is a collection of artists but mainly songwriter Soren Anders and vocalist Carolyn Eufrasio. They trade off on lead vocals. The music is filled with strings and deep grooves and a bit of playfulness (Anders is credited with, among other instruments, a toy piano). The lyrics sound like Anders passed every high school vocab test with flying colors. From the opening track "Silence of Midnight":
It's getting late and I am exacerbated ... I've debated and debated this debasement; no abatement, I hate it ... If every song were like this, the album would be extremely pretentious. But Anders shows a sense of humor quite often, even if it's a sardonic one. My favorite track is "Easy," sung by Carolyn, a look at love connections in the modern world set to a hot Latin beat and flavored with dancing string arrangements: I put my picture on a public site It went live only last night. Today my box is full! My love life is on a roll! Can't wait 'til Wednesday for the latest copy ... Every song has a different approach, from the funky/R&B "On My List" to the beat-poetry feel of the delicate "Cool Web." I liked the lovely classical composition entitled "Everyone Says You Love Me But You." Again and again, I kept opening the CD booklet to double-check the lyrics to make sure they were saying what I thought they were saying. Anders is a true poet, and his strongest lyrical work shows in "Author," a song about wanting to literally rewrite his childhood. I love the line, "If you were a character, I'd make you minor, a paragraph from hello to goodbye." This is an album of intelligent compositions -- a few radio-friendly, the rest boldly not so. Strongly recommended.Jennifer Layton Indie-Music.com
The following selection of accolades for the debut 2002 Shimmerplanet release "Welcome To Shimmerplanet" provide insight into the music to be discovered in Shimmerplanet's sophomore release "For The One Who Kills Tomorrow." For more, download this file as a PDF.
"Welcome to Shimmerplanet, Shimmerplanet's debut album, is a brilliant mixture of
rhythm, dance and blues. Soren Anders and Carolyn Eufrasio put their intelligent heads together
and came up with this incandescent album. You can find Shimmerplanet among New York's hip
entertainment scene. While certain songs have a gospel sound and others a punky sense,
Shimmerplanet is ultimately sexy music. It's underground, alternative sound is a perfect rainy
day soundtrack. It's what Bridget Jones would have listened to when that pig Hugh Grant character
breaks her heart for the umpteenth time. Shimmerplanet fills the room with contemporary
vocals...taking you further than your franchise music, awakening your dull senses, I give Welcome
to Shimmerplanet two, very enthusiastic, thumbs up."
James Culp - News
Northwest
"Welcome To Shimmerplanet is one of the most original and enjoyable
releases in recent memory. The pair takes turns singing lead on the songs, and when they sing
together, as they do on the exceptional "No Safe," they complement each other like two planets in
the same orbit. The variety of the material, from the keyboard and vocal on "I Am Still Looking
For You" to revved- up rock of "Everything's Perfect" to the deadpan vocals on "Happy" to the
racing S&M heartbeat of "Beat Me" to humdinger "Envy," kept my attention from start to finish
(including the "I Sleep With The Radio On" coda) and made me yearn for travel to Shimmerplanet's
galaxy."
Gregg Shapiro - The Windy City Times
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