A San Francisco trio from the late '90s whose two albums of folk-jazz melancholy found listeners long after they broke up.
If you want to hear what they were about, start with 'They'll Only Miss You When You Leave' from that first album. It's got that mix of folk melody and heartbreak that defined their sound.
They made music that felt like a secret passed between friends, with songs like 'Sophisticated Fuck Princess Please Leave Me Alone' capturing a specific kind of quiet desperation. Their sound mixed folk and jazz with experimental touches, built around Carissa Johnson's vocals and lyrics that often dealt with loss. Even though they never broke through to a wide audience, their recordings kept finding people who connected with that particular intensity.
They formed in San Francisco in the late 1990s around vocalist Carissa Johnson, bassist Dave Mihaly, and drummer Seth Sutton. After putting out their self-titled debut in 1999 and 'Songs About Leaving' in 2003, they broke up not long after that second album, with some members going on to form other projects.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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