Christy & Emily
Tic Tac Toe
On Tic Tac Toe, Christy & Emily fl avor half of its 13 songs with an uptempo, slightly hilarious touch. But the lyrics still are mostly moving out from under something heavy, as Emily sings in Strange. The songs evoke sceneries of dark, gloomy thoughts and bad dreams, envelopped in strangely mellow, but thoroughly unsettling melodies, even if they sound like transcended Reggae tunes as in Rolling Ocean. Tic Tac Toe reveals a new stage in the continuing sound struggle between Christy & Emily: less noisy, chaotic guitar breaks; more (atmo)spheric melodies - and, above all, the new quality of a nearly tangoesque sound: elegiac energy tamed by a mellow mood. Chamber music for public settings - or as Robert Lloyd, front man of The Nightingales, one of the first admirers of Christy & Emily, states it: the intimacy of an inspiring sound clash between two promising artists.