Member Since: 24/01/2007
Band Website: www.AllAreRelative.com
Band Members: Elizabeth Devlin - Vocals, Autoharp & Music/Lyrics
PRESS: [email protected]
NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION: www.AllAreRelative.com, iTUNES, CDBaby, antifolk.net.
INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION (UK & EUROPE): [email protected]
Influences: The antithesis of nothing...
...AND...
"To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing."-Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Sounds Like:
"Once Again Sleep" of Debut full-length album ALL ARE
"Then think about Elizabeth Devlin, who sings as though her influences are not of this Earth, and who, a scant three years ago, compelled audiences to listen intently through hour-long shows at Sidewalk, her lilting vibrato accompanied only by the handclaps she could chide out of the audience. In less-capable hands, an hour of solo a capella songs would be interminable, but Devlin soldiered on and kept audiences interested for a few months, before picking up an autoharp, and not so much learning it, so much as having the instrument in her bones. This, All Are Relative, is Devlin's debut full-length (or any length, save one song on Crafty Records' Anticomp Folkilation in 2007), and it is a testament to her ability as a songwriter, singer and monumentally gifted performer."
-JezebelMusic.com, Record Review: All Are Relative, By:Brook Pridemore Dec. 12, 2008
"Elizabeth Devlin is a creative young singer from Queens, with a voice at once strong and ethereal. She accompanies herself on Autoharp, which casts her every song in shades of spooky."
-MUSIC: Critics' Picks, TimeOUT NY, Dec. 4-10, 2008 ISSUE 688
"In a sea of female vocalists armed with pianos, guitars and a Regina Spektor fixation, it thrills me to hear a great songwriter sporting an autoharp and a voice like Snow White with a dash of helium."
-Ben Krieger, A Review of Williamsburg Songwriter Competition 11/9/07, Bar Matchless
www.jezebelmusic.com/weblog
"Devlin invokes influences from scratchy American phonograph, combining bitter-sweet, haunting vocals with angelic, cacophonous Autoharp melodies."
-Press Release, Make Music NYC 7/21/07, Wagner's Cove, Central Park, NYC
www.myspace.com/wagnerscove, www.makemusicny.org,
"That's when it happens. She comes up on stage, all five foot five of her, solid cute, unassuming, adorable. She's got no instrument, and you wonder, 'What? Is she one of those lame-ass comics? Or worse: a poet?'...And in a way, she is; but a poet with lyrics, a poet like Homer, only she can see, and she can speak English, and she can sing."
-Jonathan Berger, A Guide to the Fortified Summer Antifolk Fest 2006, Aug12-20: Featured Arrtist, UrbanFolk
Record Label: BNS Sessions
Type of Label: Unsigned