Diamonds In The Dark was released on June 12th by Sugar Hill Records. The music on the disc could be branded with many labels, but I'll call it pop-rockabilly. There are catchy pop melodies mixed with country twang and be-bop, but the vocals and electric guitar provided by Sarah Borges are pure rock. Think Sun Records era Elvis. Not surprising for a girl whose list of influences includes The Clash, X, Leonard Cohen, Joan Jett, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, and Johnny Cash.
Borges is backed by The Broken Singles, which are Binky on vocals and bass, Rob Dulaney on drums, and Mike Castellana on electric guitar, vox organ and pedal steel.
The album bursts open with the foot tappin' firecracker "The Day We Met", followed by a swaying countrified rendering of X's "Come Back To Me" (the lyrics of which give the disc its title). "Stop And Think It Over" drops the twang in favor of a retro pop-rock sound with a heavier drum beat.
The humorously woebegone "False Eyelashes" has a more traditional country sound and is perhaps Sarah's best vocal performance on the album. But "Open Up Your Back Door" is the real kicker, with bluesy piano and pedal steel snaking through the rock guitar vibrations and call-and-response chorus.
Sarah trades her electric guitar for an electric sitar on the mellotroned "Around 9", then tries her multi-instrumental hand on an organ for the grinding "Lonely Town Of Love". The wailing vocals and shrieking guitars of "Diablito" are as devilishly scintillating as the title suggests. And the disc closes with a soft, omnichorded cover of Tom Waits' "Blind Love".
Sarah Borges Official Site
Sarah on MySpace
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Borges is backed by The Broken Singles, which are Binky on vocals and bass, Rob Dulaney on drums, and Mike Castellana on electric guitar, vox organ and pedal steel.
The album bursts open with the foot tappin' firecracker "The Day We Met", followed by a swaying countrified rendering of X's "Come Back To Me" (the lyrics of which give the disc its title). "Stop And Think It Over" drops the twang in favor of a retro pop-rock sound with a heavier drum beat.
The humorously woebegone "False Eyelashes" has a more traditional country sound and is perhaps Sarah's best vocal performance on the album. But "Open Up Your Back Door" is the real kicker, with bluesy piano and pedal steel snaking through the rock guitar vibrations and call-and-response chorus.
Sarah trades her electric guitar for an electric sitar on the mellotroned "Around 9", then tries her multi-instrumental hand on an organ for the grinding "Lonely Town Of Love". The wailing vocals and shrieking guitars of "Diablito" are as devilishly scintillating as the title suggests. And the disc closes with a soft, omnichorded cover of Tom Waits' "Blind Love".
Sarah Borges Official Site
Sarah on MySpace
Buy the CD
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