SHELL IS SWELL

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About the Artist
SHELL! is Marianne Nowottny and Donna Bailey. They have been performing together for almost four years. In October 1998 Abaton Book Company released a limited edition cassette entitled SHELL! meets the Invisible Man + SHELL! vs. NEU! a kind of battle of the bands. Recorded in their t.v. room with only the most basic recording equipment (cassette tape recorders) SHELL! was able to catch the ear of NYPress writer/WFMU D.J. Kenneth Goldsmith who admired "its strange...echoey vocals and keyboards... read more

Album Description
In "SHELL IS SWELL," Marianne and Donna plug in their electronic keyboards, crank up the volume, and proceed to blow psychotic thought bubbles around shimmering, twisted sonic explosions. Simply beautiful in form and spirit, this cd promises to dismantle your brain and heart in the ironic landscape of 21st century hi-jinks. That is why "SHELL IS SWELL." An amazing take on electronic/bubblegum singalongs and gothteen-girlpop; digitally mastered by New York musician/composer Elliott Sharp.

SHELL IS SWELL

SHELL IS SWELL, Music, Shell, SHELL! IS SWELL!, and they are. These two young ladies perform teen electronic sing-a-long goth-pop.
SHELL IS SWELL
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • ethereal, eerie, rockin', delectable
SHELL IS SWELL
Shell
Manufacturer: Abaton Book Company
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004TF0T
Release Date: 2000-05-10

Tracks:

  1. Guillotine
  2. In my Blood
  3. Before the Eclipse
  4. Little Hell
  5. Marz's Birthday
  6. Ashes to Dust
  7. The Prey
  8. The Blink
  9. The Blink (Between the Lashes)
  10. Mausoleum
  11. Centipedes have needs, too
  12. Perfectly Good Sugar
  13. My Maze
  14. Another Day
  15. Shell Theme Song

Album Description

In "SHELL IS SWELL," Marianne and Donna plug in their electronic keyboards, crank up the volume, and proceed to blow psychotic thought bubbles around shimmering, twisted sonic explosions. Simply beautiful in form and spirit, this cd promises to dismantle your brain and heart in the ironic landscape of 21st century hi-jinks. That is why "SHELL IS SWELL." An amazing take on electronic/bubblegum singalongs and gothteen-girlpop; digitally mastered by New York musician/composer Elliott Sharp.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars ethereal, eerie, rockin', delectable.......2000-06-11

Shell is probably the most amazing and original band you've heard little about, if anything at all, but will complete your sonic life upon first listen. Marianne Nowottny's solo stuff is amazing, but her band work, with her best friend Donna Bailey, is comparably mind-blowing. Comparisons to other genres or artists are impossible. Searingly original, Shell's lyrics cut through sentimental and juvenile mainstream fixtures. Shell creates poetic, swirling masterpieces of words and piano, guitar, and percussion, alternately grooving you and scaring you out of your skin.

Music:

  1. Sleepwalkers
  2. Sometimes I Feel
  3. Soon To Fail
  4. Steps
  5. Still Yourself
  6. Storm [CD-single] [EP]
  7. Street Medics Unite! [Enhanced] [Explicit Lyrics]
  8. Tacos and Bowling
  9. Taurus
  10. The Dark and the Light

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Doctor Jones [CD-single] [Import]

Chicken Soup For Little Souls: What A Wonderful World - Songs To Celebrate The Magic Of Life

Debussy: Sonata for flute & viola L137; Sonata for violin in Gm

Conmemorativo: A Tribute to Gram Parsons

Conspiracion, Vol. 2: La Secuela [Explicit Lyrics]

Butterfly Caught [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]

Calypsoca 1999 [Import]

Dark Matter Moving at the Speed of Light [Import]

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