Kate Kavnevik: Norwegian Elctronica/Trip-Hop Artist Plays The Living Room Tomorrow Night, May 11th

Norwegian tranplant Kate Kavnevik is playing an acoustic show tomorrow night at The Living Room.

Kate is currently finishing her follow-up to 2006's Melankton. Spin Magazine described Melankton as a "glowing, mostly electronic set more in time with Björk, moving swiftly from gorgeous strings that wail like sirens to Havnevik's breathy, meditative melisma."

The break-out track from this release was "Unlike Me" which was used in Season 2 of Grey's Anatomy.



Links:
Kate Havnevik's MySpace Profile
Kate Havnevik's YouTube Channel

Halou - Sawtooth CD EP Review

Halou has been around for 11 years and had released 3 CDs and 3 EPs prior to Sawtooth. With this release, Halou de-emphasizes the hip-hop/trip-hop sounds of past releases and "Sawtooth" is comparable to 90's era shoe-gazer dream pop. With a heavy focus on Rebecca's voice and a layered guitar sound, the immediate points of comparison are Mazzy Star and Opal.

For fans of indie shoe-gazer pop, "Sawtooth" is well worth picking up. Two tracks from the EP, "Breath Makes Smoke" and "Evensong" are streaming on Halou's MySpace profile.



Check out the live video of Halou performing "Professional" (also from Sawtooth) from their show last month at The Filmore/Irving Plaza.

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Halou just finished a month-long tour with Bob Mould and are back in San Francisco where they are playing some residence shows at Cafe Du Nord. (The first show is April 9th).