Album Review: Big Takeover Magazine
Another positive review for Misty’s new album !
Album Review: Blog Critics
Music Review: Misty Boyce
If you’ve listened to enough pop music over your years of taking in culture, you’ll eventually come to realize that things just can’t be the way you’d want them to be. Yes, there is some truth in the existence of the lowest common denominator. Hey, it’s “popular” music for a reason. A pretty big majority of listeners aren’t all that interested in being challenged. They just want to have fun. Lady Gaga, Justin Beiber, Rihanna — fun is the word. Same as it ever was…
Five Minutes with Misty Boyce – Interview on Indie Sounds NY
Five Minutes with Misty Boyce
I first discovered Misty Boyce at the legendary Late Night at Rockwood Music Hall sessions, where she’d play the piano in the jamband and sing covers of hits from yesteryear. Then to gigs of her own songs, and now an eponymous debut album, released on NYC’s Modern Vintage Recordings. Indie Sounds found out more about it, and what’s in the future for Misty.
Indie Sounds: So, Misty Boyce – the album! What’s the elevator pitch?
Misty Boyce: Elevator pitches are hard. In a nuttshell, I’m really proud of these songs. They came out of a lot of pain and a lot of joy and a lot of work. And that’s all I want people to hear.
Album Review
“Misty Boyce announces Boyce to be a musical force to be reckoned with. Comparisons to Regina Spektor, Sarah Slean and Tori Amos are all well-founded, but Boyce is her own songwriter, and one senses that over time her sound might become even more distinctive. As a freshman effort, Misty Boyce approaches brilliance.
Rating: 4 Stars (Out of 5)”
Read more at http://wildysworld.blogspot.com/2010/03/review-misty-boyce-misty-boyce.html
Misty Boyce CD Release Party
Join me Tuesday March 30th at 10pm for my CD release party at The Mercury Lounge! Lots of exciting things happening…stay tuned!
Debut album in stores March 30
Newcomer Misty Boyce’s eponymous release debuts March 30 on Modern Vintage Recordings. The New York-based label produced, mixed and mastered the 12-song set at the famed Cutting Room Studios. The New Mexico native, whom the Tuscon Scene dubs “Regina Spektor-esque,” wrote all the songs on the album, which features a duet with acclaimed singer-songwriter Ari Hest.
Boyce began her career as the keyboardist for The Naked Brothers Band, appearing with them on “The View” and the “Today Show”, and has also accompanied Tim Williams on tour and at performances at SXSW and Sundance Film Festival.
After studying jazz piano at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, Boyce moved to New York to pursue her own sound, where she met Patrick Ermlich and Eshy Gazit at Modern Vintage Recordings. With influences ranging from Tori Amos to Radiohead to Miles Davis, Boyce writes all of her own music. She explains, “I think there is something otherworldly about writing. A line or a melody will come out and later I’ll read it or hear it and think ‘this is healing me and I wrote it.’”
Similarly, it is this connection that drives Boyce’s live performances, whether solo or with her band, which includes drummer Nir Z (John Mayer, Chris Cornell), guitarist Thad Debrock (Ari Hest, Jonas Brothers) and bassist/MD Eshy Gazit (The Roots, Lisa Loeb) and occasionally a string quartet. The Daily Iowan asserts that “her voice drips soulfully against the piano as she croons lyrics of heartbreak and toil,” and the Las Cruces Sun-News says Boyce is “at once poignant and playfulÉcombining provocative, often clever, lyrics with her soulful vocals and vibrant piano playing.”