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escutar música com os amigos em uma tarde de sol, piscina e narguila nos faz conhecer denovo sons que antes nos passaram despercebidos.
Anya Marina é uma cantora e compositora de Michigan que já participou de algumas trilhas sonoras de seriados famosos, o que lhe deu certa notoriedade na midia americana.
Assim que saiu da faculdade de língua inglesa, Anya Marina começou a trabalhar na radio XHRM-FM. Daí pras paradas foi um pulo.



'All The Same To Me', Anya Marina

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Perhaps the best compliment I can give Anya Marina’s Slow & Steady Seduction, Phase II is that upon first listen, it didn’t remind me of anything else. This San Diego DJ-turned-musician’s sophomore release is thick with originality – and it’s apparent from the get-go. The album opens with “Move You”, a track that’s introduction gave me the notion this might be another bland acoustic album – then completely shattered that perception when the beat kicked in at 1:00. The rest of the album is an equally pleasant surprise.

Produced by Brian Karscig (Louis XIV) and Britt Daniel (Spoon), Slow & Steady Seduction, Phase II is a more soulful, driven record than Marina’s acoustic-heavy debut, Miss Halfway. Striving for a stronger rhythmic influence than the stripped-down sound of her first album, however, created a difficult transition for this singer/songwriter – which she expressed to producer Daniel during the early stages of writing. Daniel responded with a CD full of loops/beats that became the jumping-off point for nearly half the album’s songs, including the standout tracks “All the Same To Me” and “Two Left Feet”.

Other noteworthy tracks include Marina’s cover of “Waters of March” – a springy tune that intersperses both English and Portugese, “Cowboy”, which is sung with a sweetness slightly reminiscent of She & Him vocalist Zooey Deschanel, and “Afterparty at Jimmy’s”, an ode to the singer of a garage band, in which Marina spouts some of the coquettish lyrics that tend to offset her “little-girl” voice: “So you say you got a band / Three parts Kinks, one part The Jam / You got soul on stage, boy / How ’bout soul in the sack?”

With “Move You” recently appearing in “Grey’s Anatomy” (her second song to be featured on the hit show), and her signing to indie label Chop Shop Records, it’s easy to see Anya Marina becoming one of the year’s breakout artists.

Anya Marina - Slow & Steady Seduction (2009)
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