Uh Huh Her: Nocturnes

Cathartic listenable-ness: A huge sound with drop-dead hookage.

I can’t imagine why anyone would have actually disliked this LA chick-electropop band’s first album Common Reaction, but by the same token it almost seemed a second-thought vanity vehicle for Leisha Hailey, who’s been a little too flighty flipping between music and acting, the latter career’s most notable bullet her joining the cast of The L-Word.

Common Reaction was mildly irritating owing to a bit too much – I don’t know, LA-ness; Camila Grey’s voice is and was too Faith Hill-like to gel with the She Wants Revenge-ish 80s-bar-rock rumble underfoot. This album, however, reveals the pair to be real contenders in the not-overly populated space between dream pop/shoegaze and mall-indie. Frankly, this more cathartic listenable-ness may have sprung from their (probably staged) outing as a lesbian couple, but whatever the case, it’s a huge sound with drop-dead hookage.

You’re almost guaranteed to like this a lot if your taste swings somewhere between classic rock, Gwen Stefani, and (obviously) PJ Harvey.

By Eric Saeger

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