No dogs allowed sidney gish5/19/2023 ![]() “That, the rabbit, and a non-comedic lawsuit on top of that.” Later, she mocks dull conventionality with titles like “I’m Filled With Steak, And Cannot Dance.” But most of the time, she’s just trying to point out her weaknesses before someone else does. On “Good Magicians,” she twists a story of manipulation and emotional sleight-of-hand into a flirtatious ode to a trickster: “I would end up with Trix cereal’s mascot suffocated in a hat/And half a torso cut in half.” she muses. Gish’s uniquely skewed sense of humor is the album’s best hook of all. Moments like this show that she’s been honing her virtuosic skills for years, with or without an audience. Just listen to “Not But For You, Bunny,” where she introduces contrapuntal, almost contradictory vocal parts and channels Tom Tom Club to serenade her pet rabbit. (“i’m not studying jazz guitar i just looked up a ii V I tutorial once and want to get ok at it before i die LMAO,” she says in a typically self-deprecating note on her Bandcamp page.) Her rich vocal harmonies cascade on “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and encourage sing-along moments on “Impostor Syndrome.” Gish has credited her knack for complex arrangements to her naturally having perfect pitch-“If a car beeps in an F sharp, then I’ll know it’s an F sharp,” she told The Boston Globe-but the ingenuity of her songwriting is about much more than luck. ![]() Over the album’s 13 tracks, she uses electric guitar, melodica, MIDI instruments, and assorted percussion to evoke a one-woman show full of clever melodies, inventive hooks, and borderline-jazz guitar licks. As a solo artist, Gish is versatile enough to serve as her own backing band. ![]()
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