Ingrid
Lucia & The Flying Neutrinos
The Hotel Child
Ingrid
Lucia hates it when people tell her she sounds like Billie Holiday.
But theres really no getting around it. Her gritty, twangy
vocals on songs like Violent Love, Love is Coming
Back, and Louis Armstrongs Someday Youll
Be Sorry are eerily reminiscent of Lady Day. But Ingrid
adds her own Nawlins twang and spice to the 12 tracks on
Hotel Child, the latest release by The
Flying Neutrinos, giving the disc a burlesque
rather than bluesy quality. Hearing her bump and grind
her way through originals like Cry (one
of four tracks penned by guitarist Matt Munistieri) and the Neutrinos
standard Mr. Zoot
Suit, one imagines girls with oversized
fans and feather boas strutting and shaking their way across the
stage in a Southern speakeasy. A lightning-fast vocal turn by
dreamy trombonist Todd Londagin on Babys Making Duck
and a cajun swingified version of Lou Reeds After
Hours round out the disc nicely. The Neutrinos may not be
breaking new ground with their third release, but their Southern
fried jazz stylings never fail to satisfy.
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Leslie Rosenberg
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