If you haven’t heard Heathers already then now is the right time to start. Twin sisters Ellie and Louise Macnamara have been making music together since 2007 but looking at recent achievements you really feel things are starting to take off for the sisters. They’ve taken part in Celtic Connections, been personally invited by Kimya Dawson to support The Moldy Peaches in London, and most recently introduced by Steve Lamacq as his New Favourite Band. I used to listen to Steve Lamacq’s Evening Sessions on Radio 1 years ago, so when he says ‘listen to this’ I generally take his advice.
Slices of Palama is the second single to be taken from the 2010 album Here, Not There. The song was named after another pair of sisters they used to be friends with who they nicknamed ‘Slices’ and ‘Palama’, but that is as far as the song strays towards nostalgia. The music itself is bare-bones; an acoustic guitar, a cello and the voices of the Macnamara sisters. It sounds trite to say that there’s a sense of authenticity about it currently lacking in this type of music but with the girls urging you to ‘enlighten’ them over increasingly battered strings there is definitely more of a kinship with the DIY music scene of East Coast America than most of the singer-songwriter music that is being plied by acts like Ellie Goulding. It’s this that makes both Heathers and the single Slices of Palama stand out. It’s this that stops them from ‘just’ being an Irish Teagan and Sara. It’s this that makes Heathers an act worth paying attention to.
Slices of Palama is released on 7th February via Aunthill Records. For more, visit www.heathersmusic.net
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