Deli CD of the Month: The Secret History – release at The Knit 03.18

Well it seems like the sounds from the 80s are back in vogue, right? All the cheesy blips and the "housy" synths and the gasping vocals and the campy clothing and so on and on and on… Well you won’t find all this in The Secret History‘s debut CD "The World That Never Was". You will find references to to great artists from that decade which followed a more personal and sincere musical path though. We are referring (for example) to the melancholic, beautiful and supremely blip free tunes of 10,000 Maniacs, or the daring, electric songs of The Throwing Muses, and their spin off super-dreamy project Belly. Besides the songwriting, what really hits you here is Lisa Ronson’s voice – warm and strong, it confers character and personality to the band’s elegant tunes through melodies that are never banal nor foreign. We also recommend you to check out the band members’ previous project, "My Favorite", which probably failed to emerge because of an unfortunate name choice in this "Google Age", but that has recently garnered some post-mortem attention from music scene fat cats Pitchfork.com. Don’t Miss The Secret History’s CD release party at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn on March 18.