Audrye Sessions: coming to an episode of The Hills near you soon (probs)
I have, despite myself, a bit of a weakness for what I like to call “soundtrack rock”.
I don’t mean tunes that have already been huge and are then pasted onto ER, a la Snow Patrol; rather, shamelessly manipulative, pseudo-emotive tunes by little-known acts which you can imagine backing up a highly ‘motional One Tree Hill break-up or somesuch.
Audrye Sessions, from California, appear to be pretty accomplished at this type of thing. Guitars chime U2-ishly over highly dramatic Muse-esque wails in “Awake”, while “Turn Me Off” is quite the ear-worm, despite your (my) instinct to sneer at the glossy production and unchallenging nature of its very noughties MOR.
It’s all very… efficient. Don’t reckon to much their cover of Elliott Smith’s “Waltz #2″, though.
Unfortunately, one of the flipsides to this type of thing is that once the band becomes inescapable you get bored shitless of them, as will no doubt happen should Audrye Sessions blow up this year. Ho hum!
Until then, check out the similarly difficult-to-dislike video for “Turn Me Off” after the jump.
Audrye Sessions - “Turn Me Off” from Black Seal on Vimeo.
[Image: Sean Desmond / Audrey Sessions' MySpace]
