Albums
You Sound, Reflect
2004
Genre: Alternative
Release Date: 2004
By David Raposa
Reviewed February 15, 2005
Indie scene veteran best-known for her work in Rodan, Retsin, and the Sonora Pine returns with two understated, plaintive albums.
You Sound, Reflect is not the sort of album that announces its presence with a demonstrative flourish or bombastic clatter. If anything, it's just as likely that you can put on this CD, listen to it, and not remember anything about it once it's finished. Even when paying close attention, it has a drunken dreamlike quality that can make even the firmest grip slip. Tara Jane O'Neil's songs are much like her singing voice-- understated, quiet but not timid, pretty but shaded with a wearying sadness. She sings the way people talk to themselves when asleep. These qualities work for and against her on this record.