I like Land of Talk. I liked their first full-length, Some Are Lakes. Catchier than My Brightest Diamond, not as quaint as Feist, and more straight-forward-rock than St. Vincent, the band places pretty high when ranked in the list of female-fronted indie outfits also associated with greater indie acts.
While the band's leader, Elizabeth Powell, is, in fact, a member of the ever-expanding Broken Social Scene and that whole musical collective, her work with Land of Talk holds it's own against their Canadian contemporaries. Plus, their aforementioned debut LP was produced by Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver). Yeah, I just indie-folk name-dropped.
Powell and her band have a new record right around the corner, Cloak and Cipher, and "Swift Coin" is our first listen and it only wets my appetite for more songs of the guitar-driven, female-vocalist variety. Fun fact: Powell wrote the album while recuperating from a hemorrhage vocal polyp. Whoa.
Cloak and Cipher is out September 24th via Saddle Creek.
* Cloak and Dagger.
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Swift Coin - Land of Talk
From 2008's Some Are Lakes...
Some Are Lakes - Land of Talk
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