Customer Reviews

Our One Mistake

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It's difficult to characterize this music - definitely connected with the Pop Noir traditions of the 30's and 40's but with an on target edge for today. This is a group to watch. Honing their style and getting better all the time. Django Haskins "smokey" voice is appealing. I love the connections with jazz and the addition of the cello and violin.

Music by The Old Ceremony is anything but old. The band respects traditions (they even dress up for concerts and use "classical" instruments (violin and cello)), but they add so much more. To hear that more, you'll have to get the album. The best way I can sum it up is to say they are fun, just really fun, and you'll be tapping your toes and clapping your hands in no time. You'll find yourself huming tunes while you're walking down the street and standing in the elevator. You just won't be able to help yourself.

The first half of Our One Mistake is strongest, but the whole album is a great mix of contemplative and just plain fun tunes. The lyrics are great, and I love the mix of instruments--piano (which at times sounds like an old upright in a smokey New Orleans bar (I love that!)), vibraphone, cello (after listening to this album, everyone will want a cellist in their band), violin, guitar, bass, drums, and a few other instruments I don't know the names of.

It's a great band, a great album, and I, for one, am bookmarking their website, anxiously awaiting their next album.

This is a magnificent recording with vocals and harmony slightly reminiscent of the darker side of the Beatles and Stones. Chilling and often unsettling in its depth and feeling this is something to play alone in contemplative mood. Truly one of most brilliant recordings of the decade.

These young men are musicians of the highest order with something powerful to say.

Wow! Just saw these guys at Joe's pub after reading and seeing a clip on the All Songs Considered e-letter. Hey, it's hard to start loving a band when you see them on a 2-inch square screen....but the lyrics, the arrangements, the tune (Talk Straight) just stuck immediately.
So, loved 'em at Joe's Pub,,,, Django is the REAL DEAL {amazing presence, great singer, and such a cool guitarist - not a guitar god, but the man knows what he's doing),,,,pianist had some injury to his hand, and was THE BEST one-handed-keys-guy ever....well, you get it - a very tight/hot/cabaret-like/am I in nyc or pre-wwII Berlin or Tokyo kinda feel.

Now - what's going on with this band and how they view love and romance and relationships is friggin exciting. Check out the lyrical twists in the songs Reservations and Get To Love.

A definite Beatles-noir for the post-modern world.