Meet Gin Wigmore. I won't give you the how-do-you-not-know-her schpiel I did yesterday with The Charlies, because I just discovered Gin Wigmore about thirty minutes ago thanks to my friend Hannah ( imnosoldier.tumblr.com ) who opened me up to her magnificent music.
Wigmore is from New Zealand and was formerly a soap opera star...but no one really cares about the background, do we? We wanna hear the music! Here it goes.
It's like Amy Winehouse's instrumentation with Duffy's voice and Hailey Reinhart's growls.
"Too Late For Lovers" is from her first album "Holy Smoke." The track starts out with some soft guitar riffs and sounds kind of like a soft ballad until Wigmore's vocals invade the track. Her Duffy-esque singing sings "Oh it's too late for lovers. Save me, why won't you save me?" in the song's amazing chorus. Her voice gets a certain rasp at certain points during the song that add so much depth to the track it's amazing.
"Hey Ho" is also from "Holy Smoke." No she's say saying "hey" to a whore, it's more along the lines of "hey, ho, nobody knows you're not coming home" as she sings in the chorus. The track deals with the desire Gin has to cause some serious harm to her ex-boyfriend. Don't mess with this girl! "Believe me baby, you won't come back again" she says oh so nonchalantly. The song's music video is great too, forget Lady GaGa.
"Black Sheep" is her latest single, also the first from her second album "Gravel & Wine." This song is the one that first turned me on to her. The way she overunciatingly sings every syllable in the song shows such passion it's impossible not to love it. "Everybody's doing it so why the hell should I?" she asks in the chorus. Something about this song is just so perfect, I can't imagine anyone singing it better, or remixing better. "Once you go black, you never go back" she sings over and over in the song's last chorus.
If Gin Wigmore is "black" then I never wanna go back to white.
The beauty of Gin Wigmore's music and persona is that she seems completely relatable in songs like "Too Late For Lovers" but then you think "this chick is crazy" when you watch the videos and listen to the lyrics of songs like "Hey Ho" and "Black Sheep." the crazy thing is, who hasn't thought of doing a little harm to an ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend? Who hasn't felt like they're so weird they might as well embrace it? Gin is like the augmented version of every single one of us, she just makes our nastiest attributes easier to see. It's quite cathartic once you think about it.
Gin Wigmore's album "Gravel & Wine" was released Nov. 7, 2011.
What to you think of Gin Wigmore?
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