Albums
Glossolalia - EP
2011
Genre: Indie Rock
Release Date: 2011
By Brian Howe
Reviewed November 18, 2011
Sisters Cristi Jo and Jessica Zambri earned their first notices when they showed up as back-up singers at Hooray for Earth's 2010 CMJ Performance. Their debut EP, a distressing piece of work, is stranded somewhere between experimental chaos and idiomatic dark pop.
Cristi Jo and Jessica Zambri earned their first major notices when they showed up, quite suddenly, as back-up singers at Hooray for Earth's buzzy CMJ performance in 2010. (Jessica Zambri and Hooray frontman Noel Heroux are married.) The two bands subsequently traded remixes, resulting in the cleanly anthemic "Heather" and peculiarly incoherent "Comfortable, Comparable". The latter was a technological massacre: almost a cautionary fable about what it will sound like if our samplers rise up against us. It didn't raise high expectations for how the Zambri sisters-- talented performers, by most reports-- would fare as composers. Their debut EP, , is better, but it's still a distressing piece of work overall, stranded somewhere confusingly between experimental chaos and idiomatic pop.