Concert Review: Shy Honey

Shy Honey opened the Slants' farewell show Monday night at the Doug Fir Lounge. It was a good show.

As a relatively new band, they currently only have three recordings that can be easily found, but their set list Monday featured nine songs, including a solo cover by singer Anna Gilbert of Oasis' "Champagne Supernova".

That may indicate the tendency toward nostalgia that Born Music Online noted:

"She has this kind of music that 'you'd dance around your bedroom and sing into a hairbrush.' Bringing nostalgic memories and happy times back into the limelight."

(as quoted on the Shy Honey web site)

Indeed, Gilbert's intro included a story that either indicated that "Champagne Supernova" was the only song she liked as a teenager or that is was really overplayed (could be both). The band nonetheless sounded new and fresh.

Without a lot of information available, existing material tends to focus on Gilbert. The rest of the ensemble is musically strong. They featured drumming that was clean but accentuated with fun surprises, flexible rhythm and bass guitar capacity, lovely keyboards, and the most interesting lead guitar set-up that I have ever seen. With a more synth pop bent, not every song took advantage of that ability, but when the opportunity to shine was there it excelled.

Shy Honey plays tonight at the Aladdin, which makes for a busy week. I hope they have a blast.

There should be good things ahead.

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