Eisley

With Sixpence None the Richer calling it quits a year earlier, there are big, unique shoes to fill. This sultry and evocative sister set steps up with vocals that slide around as easily as the dobro in the background of several tracks -- a little like a refined and rocky Iris Dement singing a duet with herself. Good for dancing barefoot in a daisy-printed dress.

Forget Hilary Duff: this youthful small-town Texas quintet of polite, pretty Christian siblings
(and one best buddy) should have performed at W.'s reinauguration. The slo-mo pop songs
on Eisley's full-length debut were written around the angelic voices of Sherri and Stacy
DuPree, which intertwine in melancholy harmonies that grow more cloying as Room Noises
passes. Outfitted with soft piano and sparkling guitars, "Marvelous Things" and "L... More >