The Icebergs - Eldorado ((CD))

NYCs downtown trio The Icebergs debut album, Eldorado, lies somewhere between the stripped down urgency of The Violent Femmes and the unsettling sex appeal of Portishead. Front woman and principle songwriter, Jane LeCroy has a talent for adapting classical poetry into her free associated punk songs, and a history of writing erotica to pay the bills. Occasionally refined, but more often nearly unhinged, LeCroys understated delivery heaves and hovers over the tension built by her seasoned rhythm section. All manic beats and pizzicato cello freakouts, her band weaves in and out of jazz waltzes and reggae inspired punk jams, stained greyish blue with weedsmoke and poetic rambling...

• Internal ID: JITRE
• Format: CD
• Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**
• Format Detail: CD Digipack with lyric book
• Released: 2/10/17
• Genre: Rock