We’re excited to announce that we’ve teamed up with Cheap Lullaby Records and the Food Bank For New York City to help out with their Thanksgiving outreach program.
For the week leading up to Thanksgiving (Nov. 18–25), Amie Street will donate 50% of all proceeds from the Cheap Lullaby catalog — including the highly-anticipated new release from Gramercy Arms — to the Food Bank For NYC!
Buy the new Gramercy Arms album:
Gramercy Arms
Gramercy Arms
“Gorgeous conventional songcraft and sun-kissed vocals; laidback power pop, if that’s not a contradiction in terms… Imagine the Byrds paying tribute to the Velvet Underground.” ~ The Guardian
The debut album fron NYC’s Gramercy Arms features members of Guided By Voices, Luna, Joan As Police Woman, and The Dambuilders. Guests include comic Sarah Silverman, Lloyd Cole, Chris Brokaw, and members of Nada Surf and The Pernice Brothers.
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Download this bundle of our favorite Cheap Lullaby albums:
Gramercy Arms Gramercy Arms |
 Joan As Police Woman To Survive |
 Ane Brun Changing Of The Seasons |
 Sylvie Lewis Translations |
Venice, CA’s Cheap Lullaby Records is an artist-friendly independent record label cut from the same cloth as the classic labels that put artist development first. In addition to Gramercy Arms, this bundle includes great albums from Ane Brun, Sylvie Lewis, and Joan As Police Woman.
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Check out these highlights from Cheap Lullaby:
To Survive by Joan As Police Woman
Two years on from Joan As Policewoman’s startling debut, success has been bittersweet for backing singer-turned-indie heroine Joan Wasser. Following the loss of her mother from cancer, she eulogises love in a trembling voice and with a tear-stained smile. Her emotion-rich songs have become tender affirmations, such as the hope-sprinkled Honor My Wishes. And the needling guitar, soulful brass and gothic piano of her “punk rock R&B” are more evocative than ever. The girlish wonder of To Be Loved is bookended by the grown-up gratitude of To Be Lonely, her maternal instincts in the title track twinned with an orphan’s isolation. Cascading harmonies and chimes soften the wheezing of intrusive synths. You can hear old friend Rufus Wainwright passing the torch to a woman who’s not just surviving, but flourishing.
[The Guardian]
Changing Of The Seasons by Ane Brun
This entrancing Norwegian singer-songwriter evokes a haunted Dolly Parton minus the drawl. Her songs can be simply devastating, and at other times, oddly reassuring. Touching on elemental fears and desires, Changing of the Seasons rewards intimate listening — in the final verse of the title track, a lover’s embrace suddenly silences any thoughts of straying. Valgeir Sigurosson, Björk’s longtime studio collaborator, wraps Brun’s fragile tunes in tissue-thin layers that expose her quavering soprano’s vulnerability and doesn’t overplay her commercial leanings. Best of all is “Armour,” where she warbles like a Disney robin.
[Spin]
Graced with wistful piano playing, sepia-toned arrangements and cabaret-ready melodies, London singer/songwriter Sylvie Lewis’ second album shares a young Rufus Wainwright’s seen-too-much-too-soon weariness. It also has the same affection for dusty song forms and, most importantly, a similarly deep well of sympathy hidden beneath its louche posturing. Lewis’ gift for reinvigorating anachronistic musical forms might be even stronger, at this formative stage, than Wainwright’s was.
[Paste]
Frutti di Mare by Don’t Be A Stranger
Frutti di mare is a brilliant record from the first song to its last one… This is definitely my fav rock/pop album this year (and “Mon chi chi” video is one of my fav too), even if it is also a little bit folk and probably something else as well. What the hell. Forget the categories. This is a must have record. I bought it for only 50 Kr (Swedish Crowns) in Record Hunter, St Eriksplanm Stockholm.
Most of the record is quite dark (”Yellow Moon”), sometimes it rocks like PJ Harvey (”Mon chi chi”), sometimes it evokes a little bit The Velvet Underground (”We’ve been waiting”). But all in all, it keeps its own musical personal atmosphere.
[Absolut Noise]
Some Truth And A Little Money by The Bloody Lovelies
One of the most inspiring aspects about The Bloody Lovelies’ debut is that it creates a visceral bond between the artist and audience. [Singer/pianist Randy] Wooten observes, “I listened to a lot of records when I was a kid because I felt like there was somebody else on the other end of the speaker that understood what I was going through.” The Bloody Lovelies have the one rare, intangible quality that no corporate boardroom will ever be able to manufacture: the ability to connect with fans.
[One Way Magazine]
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