There’s something undeniably out-of-time about Kendra Morris and her indelibly cool singer-songwriter style. It combines rough-hewn powerhouse vocals with arrangements that betray both an extensive record collection and a whimsical instinct for joyous noises — think Dusty Springfield fronting Spoon circa Kill the Moonlight or a ‘60s girl group creative directed by Nick Lowe and PeeWee Herman. The result is vibrant and varied and packed with personality. An accomplished visual artist and stop-motion animator, it’s appropriate that Morris’s music takes a collagist approach, mischievously recombining all sorts of rock and roll ingredients – the sass and swagger of Ronnie Spector, the more acid-fried corners of the Nuggets compilations, post-modern interpolations of mid-century exotica music, the cracking snares and sugary urbanity of ESG – while offering moments of vulnerable insight from a life spent in pursuit of creativity.
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445 S. Magnolia Avenue , 32801