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Jessica Lea Mayfield
Also Playing: An Horse
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Thu Jun 30
6 pm
Jessica Lea Mayfield and An Horse at East Side Club
Baby-faced singer Jessica Lea Mayfield happily eschews precociousness with surprisingly full- and confident-sounding vocals; the lyrics, if not earth-shattering, don’t dip into messy teenage-poetry territory. Fellow Ohioan Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys got hold of a copy of her debut EP, which she self-recorded at the age of 15, and produced her first album with a sympathetically sparse touch, which helps her moody folk tunes feel more fleshed-out. But her recent second album, Tell Me, suggests that the maturity is coming from Mayfield herself. An Horse got an ideal introduction to U.S. audiences when it toured with Tegan And Sara in 2008. A spin of Walls, An Horse’s sophomore album, quickly reveals why the Quin twins so eagerly championed the duo. Singer-guitarist Kate Cooper and drummer Damon Cox write guitar-pop around a familiar formula, but with a sense of urgency that avoids their patrons’ occasional repetitiveness.
East Side Club 3735 Monona Dr., Madison, WI
Baby-faced singer Jessica Lea Mayfield happily eschews precociousness with surprisingly full- and confident-sounding vocals; the lyrics, if not earth-shattering, don’t dip into messy teenage-poetry territory. Fellow Ohioan Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys got hold of a copy of her debut EP, which she self-recorded at the age of 15, and produced her first album with a sympathetically sparse touch, which helps her moody folk tunes feel more fleshed-out. But her recent second album, Tell Me, suggests that the maturity is coming from Mayfield herself. An Horse got an ideal introduction to U.S. audiences when it toured with Tegan And Sara in 2008. A spin of Walls, An Horse’s sophomore album, quickly reveals why the Quin twins so eagerly championed the duo. Singer-guitarist Kate Cooper and drummer Damon Cox write guitar-pop around a familiar formula, but with a sense of urgency that avoids their patrons’ occasional repetitiveness.
Updated 06/22/2011
