"Davia! You've come back to Dakoda Motor Co. and made a new record! Oh, I love you sooo much....wait a minute, you aren't Davia. What kind of sick joke is this.....?"
Okay, maybe that was a bit harsh. But the truth is like that sometimes, and it really does seem that Broomtree has come along to halfway fill the Dakoda Motor Co. void, with vocalist Kylie sounding quite similar to Davia (with perhaps a little less confidence). The usual power pop alterna-guitars buzz along below her girlish singing, to make for good youth group ear candy. Miss Angie blows this away, though, if that tells you anything. One tune reminds me of Spooky Tuesday, another of Soulfood 76, yet a third of Juliana Hatfield (nah...not that good!). Sprinklings of funk sparkle every once in a while. The lyrics deal with emotions, relationships, looking to God, and so on, with plenty of hope and truth.
A Broomtree sounds like it would be a unique thing to plant in one's CD collection, but I'd only recommend it for young ones just getting theirs started. Chick rock, yeah!
2.5 tocks
Other coverage for this album
7ball #16Reviewed by Nik BarnesHailing from Ohio, it's no surprise Broomtree has some things in common with neighbors Morella's Forest and Belly. Sometimes described as "hard and happy chick music" (as you'll hear for yourself on the record), the straight-ahead guitar rock and little-girl-lost vocals of Kylie Schlig charge through simple songs of faith and devotion. The main songwriter, as well as guitarist and vocalist,…The Phantom Tollbooth 1998Reviewed by Linda T. StonehockerShe calls it, "hard and happy chick music," and laughs. Kylie Schlig is female, but nobody's chick. Kylie Schlig is the real deal. A poet and guitar student long before she decided to head up a rock 'n roll band, she wasn't manufactured or packaged by anyone besides herself, and her redeemer. She's assembled a tight, loud four-piece to flood her songs with a buzz so solid you can lean on it in…Similar sounding releases
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