She's The Voice In Your Head...

The Ropes - Kill Her Off EP



Wooo! A band from New York that isn't disco punk!

The Ropes are a four piece fronted by a chick with the coolest name in the universe: Sharon Shy!"

YES!

What do they sound like? Well, it's a bit tricky... better take it track by track...

Kill Her Off kicks off with a Talk Talk inspired bassline and a low vocal somewhere between Suzanne Vega and Hillary Duff! A glorious chorus points towards The Sounds as Ms. Shy urges someone to "get over it already." Best track on the EP for sure.

I Stand For Nothing pays homage to the Ramones and The Buzzcocks by way of Transvision Vamp. Sharon Shy (I love saying her name!) goes for a harsher Dresdonian vocal reminiscent of Debbie Harry.

Heaven and Stilts and Water and Headphones could have been recorded by Weezer. They've got that gentle bit going on before breaking into a musically complex and distorted chorus.

Not Technically Alone eases up a bit delving back into the softer vocal ala Blackbox Recorder/ Suzanne Vega and a familiar memory that ends with the sweetest la-la-la-ing i've heard in some time! Again for some reason my mind drifts to Hillary Duff singing this!

And for the record, I am a Hillary Duff fan... so when I say there is something familiar, it's a compliment.

50-million Hillary Duff fans can't be wrong.