Kris Delmhort's New Album "Cars" is available today

12Jul

We've got Kris Delmhorst's new release Cars up for sale on our site! You can get it first here at SignatureSounds.com.

Cars is a fantastically re-imagined set of 11 songs by the Cars. Delmhorst has painstakingly deconstructed every hook-laden arrangement, every unforgettable line, creating a sonic palette inventively recast: Ric Ocasek's herky-jerky bravado is replaced by the amber warmth of Delmhorst's luminescent voice; the processed, synth-heavy aesthetic of the originals is reinvented with an array of organic instruments inlcuding fiddle, accordion, upright bass, suitcase drum kit, mandolin, clarinet, penny whistle, and harmonica.

Nothing in the music of Kris Delmhorst immediately suggests a deep affinity with proto-punk new-wave masters The Cars, and yet a dozen years into a career at the nexus of folk, indie-pop, and Americana, Delmhorst has taken a brief vacation from her own literate songwriting to bring us Cars, a collection of songs by the band that defined an era. Cars offers up an exuberant and moving dream of the summer of 1984 painted in new colors.

We have a few tracks up on the album page to sample. I also came acrosss a video from 2006 of Kris Delmhorst with Session Americana playing "Drive" at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge.

I also have to include my favorite Cars video. I don't think that I can listen to the Cars without picturing Ric Ocasek's giant head popping up in the window of a cheesy 1984 bright pink bedroom!