Megan Mullally and Supreme Music Program's new CD was released on July 28th. Its been a wait for a new album from this vocal artist and her band, but WOW this one is worth the waiting. It's only available for download at the moment at Megan's official website but will be available on CD soon. Personally I couldn't wait any longer.
I've enjoyed Megan's voice and musical attitude since I clicked on a clip of her singing at youtube a while ago. She can make a song sweet, hot, raw or deranged. She has one of those voices that went into my head and wouldn't let go, as does the music of her band SMP. She's not afraid to exercise versatility, and there's something uncompromising in her style I really admire.
Someone who has reached her celebrity-ness and is still prepared to produce edgy music that oftentimes stuns has me really listening. She can draw out a musical energy that expresses a purity you'd find only in the rawest of elements, maybe like the drama of a storm framing the naked skeleton of a tree, or the delicious texture of weather beaten skin - a concept difficult to define - but all good art has it. Her music has it, and she never gets too serious about it either.
I like way she sings the story of each song, as nothing she sings is quite as it seems. There's a tiny child's piano in "Ave Maria", laughter on "Talk to me", heat in the murkiness of "Down by The River" The sub-text in each song can be sad, dazed, obsessed and glowing in the same moment. It feels to me like she's saying, and I have to use an Australian expression here, "cop it sweet". I can't say it any other way.
At last there's a new MM/SMP CD to wear out, and to walk along the river to...
Bliss, Wendy xxx
