Finishing the upcoming E.P. entitled "Godspeed".
Julie's songs are hard to describe without using cliche, because it feels insulting to use words like "raw" or "emotional" but sometimes that's just what it is. Sometimes people say they're a music or they're a lyrics person - it's pretty much impossible to separate the two with Julie Rose's songs. The lyrics jump out of her mouth and into your gut.
Her voice is powerfully varied. She can start out soft, singing in almost a whisper, but then when the song calls for it, she tears into a beautiful hybrid of yelping, shouting, and almost crying lyrics that speak to an every man or woman and their past filled with longing, desparation, frustration and awe. And if you haven't felt those emotions, you might as well not be alive. Julie sings about what it is to be alive and humane.
Here again, comparisons are tough to make. Artists like Sleater-Kinney, PJ Harvey, Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs or Patti Smith come to mind, but is that only because we don't know that many talented female singer-songwriters who don't need a backing band or pop's intoxicating packaging to lure us into their stories of love and lust? Not only does Julie sing and write like a punk-flavored dynamo, her playing is further indication that this woman breathes and sweats music.
Bill Chenevert
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