Love To Live

Living Sisters, The
Vanguard Records
General | Apr 2010

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2010-04-04
Lovely vocal centered pop with much loved KZSU favorite Eleni Mandell, Inara George (The Bird and The Bee) and Becky Stark (Lavendar Diamond) teaming up for crystalline 3 part harmonies and doubled up backups. Incredibly lovely, definitely a powerhouse “supergroup” of female vocalists of the day. Songwriting duties are shared and the music is top notch with a flare in the traditional direction, as in epic timeless 50’60’s songs. Reminiscent of the best stuff that Motown Decca or Dot ever did. Fantastic stuff that would fit as easily at Noise Pop as Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. See also Eleni Mandell’s solo stuff (her most recent “Miracle of Five” is most poppy, most similar).

1) upbeat, pretty, with full band, lilting pretty guitar melodies
2) slow dance swing romantic
3) shoo bop shoo bops, slightly up retro feel w/ sax solo
4) lovely slow song with a “cheesy” middle spoken part, very Motown
5) triplet retro feel with organ
6) pop perfection, upbeat slightly surfy beat
7) fantastic vocal epic with Eleni’s guitar, a bluegrass/twang flare
8) fun spacey sound, cheerful pop with really pretty guitar
9) upbeat swingy slight blues lilt
10) slight western flare, holy shit holy shit holy shit

Recent airplay

Double Knots
Double Knots
Friend of MineJun 03, 2010
How Are You Doing?
Brownian MotionJun 02, 2010
Hold Back
The Value MachineMay 29, 2010
Double Knots
Hipster GarbageMay 20, 2010
Don't Let The Sun Go Down
Brownian MotionMay 19, 2010

Charting

2010-04-11 — 2010-06-13
Week EndingAirplays
Jun 6 2
May 30 1
May 23 2
May 9 1
May 2 1
Apr 25 1
Apr 18 4

Track listing

1. How Are You Doing?
2. Ferris Wheel
3. Blue
4. Cradle
5. Good Ole Wagon
6. Hold Back
7. This Mountain Has Skies
8. Double Knots
9. (You Dont Know) How Glad I Am
10. Don't Let The Sun Go Down