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Demo of the Week - Kiara Scuro
WELL, I have been told. Kiara Scuro, a band that I wrote about in my Demo of the Week column last month have got in touch to tell me what I think of them is a load of rubbish.
“Artists don’t have to take criticism lying down,” they said. Fair enough. I had told them to “buck up the songwriting and ditch the theatrical singing.”
But what I called theatrics, they said was emotion: “Something which she probably hasn’t heard (or felt for that matter) in quite some time.”
I also panned their sound, and advised them to go to mixing classes. They thought otherwise: “Vocals that ‘sound like they’re coming from the inside of a milk bottle’ have nothing to do with being not well-balanced with the guitar. They are due to an effect that she probably hasn’t heard of called digital delay (and there was no mistake, they were meant to sound like that...)”.
This page isn’t about snobby muso noodling – it’s about the sound, digital delay or not. If you want to be an artist, criticism comes with the territory.
But readers can make their own minds up. Go and see them at the Buffalo bar in Highbury on April 5.
If you want to run the Dotw gauntlet, and you are unsigned, then send your CD in to Grooves, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR, or email me a link to your website/ Myspace, at grooves@camdennewjournal.co.uk. If you’re a local band, be sure to let me know. |
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