Kathy Cashel ‎– The Question Is Yes CD

Kathy Cashel ‎– The Question Is Yes CD

"Kathy Cashel's new album The Question Is Yes is a mostly acoustic guitar/voice affair, with a few friends helping out and rocking up a song or two. I find it perennially tricky to describe Cashel's music. I'm tempted to refer to Pedro the Lion, because she has a number of things in common with David Bazan -- she tends to write songs that have fairly deliberate tempos but that don't feel slow even when they are, and like Bazan, she often sings in a slower tempo than she plays: what are effectively quarter notes in the vocal melody take a half or full measure in the instrumental part. Lyrically, Cashel also tends to be interested in morality and ambiguity. On the other hand, there's the whole avowedly Christian aspect of Pedro the Lion tyat makes it a potentially misleading referent, and Bazan's songs are more narrative-oriented whereas Cashel is more impressionistic. Unlike many acoustic singer songwriters, she uses single- or double-note figures at least as much as she uses arpeggios or strums chords. She has a contralto voice and she plays and sings beautifully." - Pathetic Caverns