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"I try not to sound like a typical girl singer," said Seeliger, who ties her powerful, but whimsy vocals back to some childhood loves. "I always used to listen to a lot of Elton John, Sheryl Crowe, 90s-pop music, which wasn't this kind of stuff." Seeliger can't label what that "stuff," in fact, is, but it's certainly not Elton John. "We do our own thing," says Seeliger. "We don't censor ourselves. We just make music that doesn't happen to sound like everything else." It's a sound and image that was immediately met with some shallow feedback. "A lot of occasions in the early days, people would come up, just take a picture (of Seeliger) and walk away," says guitarist Mike Foti. "They didn't take the female front seriously."

But Seeliger and the rest of the foursome don't rely on their novelty. They continuously push for new sounds, as the disparity between their two in-studio tracks "By a Fraction" and "You Horrible Wretch" puts on display. "Fraction" is a harder track driven by power chords, Mike McDuffee's bass work and Seeliger's gushy vocals; the loungier, poppier "Wretch" could follow-up the B-52's "Love Shack" or almost any Jet song on a mix CD.

Yes, they're that diverse.

"We always try to prove ourselves with substance and I think we do," says Foti. "Our live show is really intense." "I think people interpret it based on the music and not on the image after a while," Seelinger says. "People's responses are very positive." Now, this band that formed out of necessity because they "thought it would be funny," are seeking label support. They can't believe how close they are, or how far they've come. "We say that every couple of minutes," Foti says, on how they've never dreamed of being in a situation like this. "It just progressively got more serious and we're going to keep going. Because, really, it hasn't stopped being fun."

- Ben Collins, WERS.org

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3 Song Spring Sampler (2007)

1. Chou Chou (Music Video)
2. You Horrible Wretch
3. Big City Bug



And The Free Fall that Made Her Famous (2006)

1. We Fell Well
2. The Woman
3. The Machine
4. Retrace Your Steps
5. Killer Me
6. I'm Leaving, I've Decided
7. Upright and Locked
8. Southern Gentleman
9. It Is True, We Are But Faint Hearted Crusaders

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