Hop Along, Queen Ansleis - mp3 reivew
It feels like months since I last saw the sun. Working in midtown everyday with all the buildings towering overhead, casting giant shadows stretching over the streets, covering everything in a drab haze that consumes me. Its no wonder everyone steps all over each other on the sidewalks around here. Everyday at 5:30 a flood of people migrate towards Penn Station, trampling the stragglers and unlucky few who unwittingly stray onto their path. It seemed like such a strange modus operandi when I first started working here, now I find myself expertly navigating my way into the herd and weaving my way back out to reach my stop. The expressway of the walking dead. Fuck, I hate this neighborhood.
Hop Along, Queen Ansleis is essentially Frances Quinlan. Frances makes silly folk songs that might make you smile or sigh. She has two brothers, and they are both drummers. One’s in a band called Hey Hey. As far as I can tell the only way to get her CDs is to order them directly from her. If you like stories and singing and yelling and bells and banjos and drums and some kazoo, you might like this. I’ve read that when attending a Queen Ansleis show, you are expected to bring some kind of noise maker, whether it’s a tambourine, a pot, or a kazoo, so you can sing and play along. These tracks are a mix of live stuff I found from online videos, (including a site, http://www.ifyoumakeit.com, with some kickball footage from the last brooklyn show I was at!!) and what I could find on myspace and purevolume. While that may sound a bit shady, you should know that I am ordering CDs from Frances with my next paycheck, and if you like these tracks you should as well. Did I meantion that I am head over heals, totally in love with her?
Bruns is Orange
New song (pink couch session)
Workers
show Frances some love on her myspace page here: http://www.myspace.com/hopalongqueenansleis
or
To order a copy of her first release,”freshman year”, send $10 to :
Blue Moose Records
1412 W. Mount Royal Ave. (apt. 2)
Baltimore, MD 21217
-mark
November 27th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
she DOES look a little like hasidic version of natalie portman in that pic.
no wonder you love her.
t
November 27th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
listen to ‘workers’.. at about 1:47 she totally burps while she’s
saying ‘look you in the e(belch)ye…..’
hahahahahaaaaa!!! thats pretty awesome.
still in love with her mark?
November 28th, 2007 at 1:40 am
i didn’t hear that. but this is pretty great, mark. it’s so emo but i’m not embarrassed to say i really like it.
November 29th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
so the other day i got these tracks from mark. then i listened to
them at work. then i took them home and got really really stoned from
eating pot brownies. then after listening to these tracks over and
over i decided that her voice is kind of annoying and this music is
kind of pretentious.
the truth: i did none of these things. i did listen to the tracks
though. and they’re okay. in small doses. her voice is a bit nasily,
but i like her lyrics. interested to hear what she does in the studio
with a band.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
I guess that’s cool that you ripped the audio. Whatever helps Frances out. Thanks for linking.
August 18th, 2008 at 12:40 am
i love her voice and how un-formulated her songs are.
its refreshing not hearing “verse chorus verse bridge chorus verse chorus” for every song. they just flow into a nice pretty party that i actually got invited too.
A+