Album: Trouble/ Artist: Doctors & Dealers
Review: Ryan Mac/ Date: 2010-02-25

Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden Doctors & Dealers is the solo project of a female singer who calls herself “Sparrow.” There really isn’t that much exciting here but the lyrics are decent and the vocalist sounds like a half-decent jazz lounge singer. Think of a toned down Lykke Li who lost her computers and synths and replaced them with a piano and some Eastern European string players

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Try: 2

1) (2:35) Sounds like it came from straight out of a piano bar. Features a slow, steady piano backed by a Latin Beat as Sparrow sings about the death of a friendship. Eerie female harmonies matched by odd horn blows and strings. Double-tempo at the end.
2) (3:24)* Get your jazz hands out. Song starts slow, with a jazz piano and soft snare hits. Song picks up with backing male harmonies and trumpets. Would easily fit into a soundtrack for a 1950s cop film.
3) (3:44) Romping piano line with an Eastern European feel and some sad violins. The vocalist uses different mics to give more a processed vocal feel over certain parts. Synthesized vibraphone comes in at the end. Vocals feel mellow and remain the same pace throughout.
4) (4:24) Opens with a creepy chant/vocal harmony, which is replaced by violin plucking and handclaps. Chorus kicks in at double tempo. Song is painstakingly boring and offers little variation in terms of instrumentation or vocal ability.