i was feeling homesick for the maritimes recently so i purchased julie doiron's 2009 album, i can wonder what you did with your day and best decision ever!
generally speaking, i have issues with the female singer/songwriter genre. i feel disappointed with women in music when i see the generic, formula based guitar strumming, sweet voiced chanteuses coming out by the thousands. i prefer to see women pushing boundaries in music, like patti smith, bat for lashes and the ladies of sleater-kinney. or how about krysta cameron, who i recently discovered and now revere.
so despite doiron being a guitar strumming, sweet voiced chanteuse she's definitely not formulaic or generic. i love her light song writing and playful lyrics mixed with the heavy weight of distortion; the dulcet melodies perfectly balanced with double tracked chaos. i don't know if it's the brown hair and bangs but i'm all over julie doiron.
the best part, i know several people in this video. i think i'm even more homesick now.
ETA: i took matt to a doiron show once, many moons ago. it was our second date.
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