There are certain types of releases that are so humble, thoughtful, and low key that they are probably never going to appear on über hip top 10 lists, but that doesn’t make them any less deserving. I’d argue that Danielle’s debut record has more to say about the human condition than all the electro and no wave of 2010 does combined. Here’s my post from May updated with a concert listing for Feb. of 2011.
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I imagine a simple song is one of the hardest to write. I imagine it must seem every combination of words has already been used up. I imagine there are lots of false starts and endless revisions. I imagine at the end of the day you hope you’d wind up with something like “My Bird” off the new record The Cartographer’s Wife by Danielle Doyle.
This is Danielle Doyle’s debut record and was put together with the help of a bunch of up and coming Boston based artists. She has already been rewarded by being named a 2009 Mountain Stage New Song Youth Winner, as well as opening up for a bunch of luminaries (Loudon Wainwright III, Dawn Landes, Heather Masse). She’ll be appearing on Feb 26 at the Natick Center for Performing Arts.
Pick up the new record here via CD Baby.
