Despite Our Differences
Indigo Girls
Engineer: David Boucher,
Producer: Mitchell Froom
Hollywood, 2006
1 CD
Catalogue #: 162 635
EAN: 0720616263520
UPC: 720616263520
You save: 20%
Indigo Girls: Emily Saliers (vocals, guitars, mandolin, ukulele); Amy Ray (vocals, guitars, mandolin, harmonica); Mitchell Fromm (keyboards); Clare Kenny (electric bass); Matt Chamberlain (drums).
Additional personnel: Pink (vocals); Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar); Carol Isaacs (piano, organ); Ruby Fromm (hand claps); Brandi Carlile (background vocals).
The Indigo Girls may still be the soft, folky females that tough rocker dudes love to mock, but the pair's 11th studio album serves to remind that Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have been making surprisingly consistent albums packed with sharp songwriting and performances for a remarkably long time. In fact, DESPITE OUR DIFFERENCES ranks among the duo's finest offerings.
The album is packed with meticulously crafted tunes long on memorable melodies, impeccably tight harmonies, and moving lyrics (see the nakedly emotive "I Believe in Love"). Producer Mitchell Froom gives the album a distinctively breezy and shimmery feel, and while country inflections underpin many of the tunes, there are equal measures of pop and straight-ahead folk in the mix. Let the rock dudes keep sneering: with DESPITE OUR DIFFERENCE the Indigo Girls continue to develop and hone their delicate, organic sound.
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Indigo Girls
Since the late-1980s, the Athens, Georgia, duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, collectively the Indigo Girls, have been creating gentle, yet furious harmonies, gloriously un-fragile folk crafted with an uncompromising DIY aesthetic. In 1989, MTV caught wind of the pair and, while the outlet's sensationalist nature harped on the lesbian angle, the station also pushed the single "Closer to Fine" onto the pop charts. The fanbase remained, even after any wisp of novelty faded, and the 1990s saw the Indigo Girls release a constant stream of critically praised records, highlighted by RITES OF PASSAGE and SWAMP OPHELIA.
