Lovell's mordant cabaret-style repertoire triangulates Nick Cave, Kurt Weill, some more blackhearted '80s New Wave and Danny Elfman, her personal hero. ("My influence? It's him. I rip off Danny Elfman every chance I get.") She cuts a unique figure on Portland's club scene, taking stages usually decked with rock bands, alone at the keys, wreathed in eternal cigarette smoke. She may be the only musician in a niche-happy town equally at home at punk dive Billy Ray's, indie-rock haven Blackbird, and Mock Crest Tavern, North Portland's blues stronghold. She's definitely the only one whose single favorite gig is playing the Hollywood Theatre lobby during the annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, as she did last weekend. And, cool as it is, you sort of hope no one else ever rewrote their childhood piano-lesson book into a cycle of love songs about Godzilla.
A striking figure, all right...
-Zach Dundas (Willamette Week)
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.amoreelovell.comTrack List:
1. Inch
2. Beauty
3. Katherine
4. Lament of the Designated Driver
5. Cute Boy
6. Boobs
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