Peakahokahoo

Piney Gir | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 16, 2004)
• Original Release Date: November 16, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Greyday Productions
• ASIN: B0006N4ZIO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #358,453 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Jude Rogers, WORD Magazine, August 2004

a fantastic debut, chock-full of inventiveness and a passion for experiment.

Product Description

Peakahokahoo is 13 beautiful songs of indie/alt country/electro-pop mayhem from the London (via Kansas) based Piney Gir. Her sound is often fractured and mysterious, but always touched by a sly sense of fun. Whether poppy and upbeat or dark and brooding, there is a cross-genre cohesiveness to her sound that is overwhelming, and an indie-pop ethic that will leave you singing along to every track!

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Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Discover This Undiscovered (in the U.S., anyway) Fresh, Mad, Pop Masterpiece, June 24, 2006

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Pete Magritte "magritte99" (Santa Monica, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Peakahokahoo (Audio CD)

Hey, I'm honored to the be the first person to review this album but I'm also kinda mystified because it's been around awhile and it's a brilliant cd and I'm like: where the hell is everybody??? It's GREAT!

Problem may be that Piney Gir (or Grrrrrr)is a one woman Pop virtuosa who works out of London (check out the fab reviews of this cd on Amazon.co.uk) and, indeed, it was only via the "Blue Baleric" compilation cd of BBC dj's Chris Coco and Rob de Bank that I got turned on to her wonderful pop-synth-pseudo-country ballad, "Greetings, Salutations, Goodbye." (Just sample that nearly perfect pop song and see if you aren't moved to get the entire cd as I was.)

But despite her British residence she is a full-blooded American-ista hailing from Kansas City, named Angela Penhaligon, and her music is a fine fusion of Yankee innovation and sheer pop energy (think B-52's) with British wit and ambience (think Goldfrapp). She does this great, mad, manic cover of The Who's "My Generation" that put me in the mind of the best of the B-52's old stuff when it was NEW, as in "52 Girls" or "Dance This Mess Around." Ditto with the lovely, anthemic "La La La."

This is such a wonderful listen from beginning to end because it touches every possible mood on the emotional spectrum as evidenced, for example, by the absolutely superb medley of the light and happy "Que Sera Sera" instantly shifting into the dark, pulsing, rocking Depeche Mode-y "Girl."

To give you a basis for comparison, other groups I like are Ladytron, Giant Drag, Goldfrapp, and the YYY's and this chick ranks right up there with all of them. I'd have to say that more than anything else "Peakahokahoo" (no, I can't pronounce it either) reminds me most of a much lighter and more upbeat version of Goldfrapp's debut, "Felt Mountain," which is pretty good company, no?