May 17th, in the middle of the night, I suddenly found myself wondering: why can’t alternative music sound like other alternative music? I’d been to a concert, one I’m about to review, and my friend told me: “If you are going to write a review, you have to listen to Martha ‘Stewart’ Wainwright and Joanna Newsom first”. So, after figuring out she meant Martha Wainwright and not Martha Stewart, I realised I know her songs, and I googled Joanna Newsom, and yes, my friend was right. The music of Angus and Julia Stone sounds similar to that, I however fail to see the problem. And really, they are quite different. While Julia Stone has a trumpet, Joanna Newsom has a harp, and Martha Wainwright has … Rufus Wainwright.
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