“If you do not like what I’m singing about / Well, then you really don’t have to listen / You can just turn me off,” says Hannah Merrick, one half of King Hannah, in the song “The Moods I Get.” In” know. As the title of their debut album suggests, Merrick and duo partner Craig Whittle have little interest in pandering to each other.
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What the two stage on I’M NOT SORRY, I WAS JUST BEING ME with band amplification is above all: atmosphere. Dark and mysterious, the pieces meander like a foggy bayou in deep Tennessee. The electric guitars flicker and simmer, the drums pound ominously and Merrick and Whittle oscillate between apathy, lasciviousness and menace at the microphone.
The effect: raised hackles, pleasant shivers, hints of trance. Maybe a wry smile too, given a goofy title like “Foolius Caesar” (a song that sounds like Portishead with rock instruments, by the way). Or when the unapproachable Merrick reveals that she used to be a bed-wetter and a wild go-kart kid. It’s always nice when cool facades show cracks.
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