Tuesday, November 01, 2005

New Music Tuesday - RIPLEY

Believe it or not, RIPLEY, is the new vehicle for one Alice Ripley, star of the Broadway hits Sideshow, Sunset Boulevard, and The Rocky Horror Show.

This 5 song EP features Shannon Ford on drums, Skip Ward on bass, and Christopher Schelling on keys. Ms. Ripley plays the guitar and sings, and has composed the tracks as well.

This band is quite a departure from her 2000 release, Everything's Fine, which was much more intimate acoustic / pop.

Ripley is five tracks of rock; one track sounding downright Beatle-esque, and another channeling a bit of Angelo Badalamenti and Julee Cruise. The photoshop'd cover picture is dead-on.

And as they say, five songs. Five bucks. The way it should be.

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