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Sexy Ester & The Pretty Mama Sisters
Post-Modern Power Pop
In retrospect, perhaps the mullet wasn't the finest hairstyle every invented. I will also concede that parachute pants may not have been quite as cool as we thought. The eighties weren't all bad though as New Wave turned ever so slowly into post-modern rock and then transformed itself into alternative music. It gave us 24 hour news, sports, music television, and the films of John Hughes including Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles and of course The Breakfast Club, which made all of us want to live in a small suburb just outside of Chicago.
Flash forward thirty years and who should come barreling out of a small Chicago suburb but Sexy Ester & The Pretty Mama Sisters, infused with so much John Hughesian charm a movie soundtrack couldn't contain it all. Sharp, smart, and deadly accurate with their hook laden Post-Modern Power Pop they're ready to take the US by force (if necessary) to promote the new Slothtrop Records release “Hubba Bubba.”
Laden with intense riffs and Holly-Go-Lightly euphemisms, “Hubba Bubba” is what great music is all about - FUN! Starting off with the melt in your mouth deliciousness of “Love Bubble” to the poignant promises of “Tell Me You Do,” this EP is a wonderful trip back in time to when music sounded fresh and the Producer wasn't in control. This music is in your face, fabulous, and fully realized.
Fronted by honey voiced Lyndsay Evans, who controls the stage like the Divas of old ( I'm talking Aretha not X-Tina ) and ably backed by Adam Edar on guitar, Dusty Hay on drums, Brad Schubert on bass, and Roscoe Evans on keyboards, Sexy Ester is no flash in the pan. They've already payed a lot of dues slugging it out in the smaller clubs and dives all over the Midwest. The new CD is fast becoming a staple of college radio and the venues are getting bigger and bigger – with a major tour planned for the Summer of 2011 – Sexy Ester & The Pretty Mama Sisters are certainly going to have folks talking for a while – or at least until mullets come back into style!
