They'll come to the Rescue

If I were to tell you that I just found a great band with two guys and two girls in it I know what you'd say..."ABBA's old news."  Aha!  But alas, that's not the band I'm talking about you silly goose.  I think I may have found a band that is better than the European pop band...The Rescues. 

I love when you're watching a show and things are really going well.  You like the story line, you like the characters and all of a sudden a song comes on in the back round that most people would just breeze through, but for some reason it grabs you and heightens the moment into something beyond what you thought possible.  That's what happened to me this week.  I was watching a show and a song by The Rescues came on in the background and completely distracted me from the actual show itself because the song was so good.  I've continued to listen to that song about 30 times in the last 3 days so I'd say it's safe to say that it wasn't just a fluke. 

The Rescues are a Los Angeles based group who combine so many things so well.  They each come from different perspectives and different feelings but they are able to combine that into one sound better than most bands that I've heard.  The thing that really makes them stand out more than anything is their harmonies.  You can be watching them on stage all singing...all four mouths moving...and they blend so well that you only hear one incredible voice.  I believe that harmonies are sort of a lost art in music.  Everyone uses them, but few do it to a point that they accept and challenge the art of writing harmonies.  It's so easy to sing a chorus, pop it up a third and sing that harmony and enjoy the way that it fills the sound a bit.  However, with bands willing to challenge the art of harmonies you not only get a fuller sound, but you get a complete sound.  The Rescues sing a song called "My Heart with You" in which there is no instrument used.  They use their voices and their harmonies as the only instruments.  There are few times that I will listen to a song and actually make it all the way through, (I have a severe case of music A.D.D. so it's rare that I actually listen to more than half of a song.) and when the song ends I have such a case of chills that I have to sit in the silence to just allow it to take hold.  I know that sounds super dramatic but "My Hear with You" did that and has done that every time I've listened to the song.



The best part is that they carry those harmonies into all of their songs.  So you get to keep the sound that makes them so unique and combine it with the incredible song writing and musicianship that they also take ownership of.  Please listen to them and go see them if they come to a city close to you.  They are supposedly AMAZING live and I can't wait to see them when they come back to LA in December. 

I have to give some thanks to Eden Malyn for introducing me to them...even if I didn't realize it, went and found them on my own and then came back to brag about this new band I'd found only for you to tell me how you already told me about them.  haha.  woops.  Thanks.

I'll leave you with a couple videos and some links to their pages so you can hear more and find out their tour dates:
The Rescues Website
The Rescues Myspace

-Kev