Girl Bros.

by

Wendy & Lisa

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Grief can be disabling, taking the best artists away from the spotlight to nurse their wounds. Or, the best of artists can transform their worst pains into something beautiful, worthwhile, lasting. Born out of the nameless sorrows Wendy Melvoin & Lisa Coleman encountered in the wake of Jonathan Melvoin's untimely death in 1996, Girl Bros. is a testament of faith: pained, fierce, and ultimately life-affirming. While the album was born as a way to give a voice to a family who could not grapple with an ultimately personal pain, these 12 tracks are much more than that. At turns serious and humorous, and often surprisingly upbeat, these tracks speak to anyone who has loved in the faith of loss. In other words, almost all of us. From the defiance of "Uh Huh, Don't Look Down," to the quirky psychdelic humor of the cover "I've Got No Strings," and back again, a gorgeously affecting album. One of my top three of 1998, and a must have for any serious collector of singer/songwriters.