the unexpected expertly!

Check it out - I'm express the unexpected expertly! :)

Vanessa Peters
Blackout EP
[Little Sandwich Music, 2006]
You know the formula—Vanessa Peters sings and plays acoustic guitar—but that doesn't mean you know the record. You don't know why a seemingly inside-joke reference to her absent band, Ice Cream on Mondays, turns out to be a lyrical meme on simple joy in darkness, or how band-as-food reverses the life-as-performance meme that matches it, or that sort of removal of emotional meaning itself gets upended when it turns out the hero and the heroine laugh because they can, or whether that laughter is itself only a performance limited to the acting a couple does to get by. Vanessa Peters sounds exactly like you'd expect, except she expresses the unexpected expertly.
[Justin Cober-Lake]

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/the_rubber_room/expertly-unexpected.htm

and in case, like me, you didn't know what the heck a "meme" is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
super-interesting, actually.


There's another great review of Blackout that I'll post as soon as I get it translated from French.....
merci and bonsoir,
vanessa