Dear Nora
The New Year EP (Magic Marker)
By Andrea Benvenuto
Published: August 20th, 2002 | 8:41pm
For most musicians, the logical follow-up to a successful debut album wouldn't involve moving miles away from the band. But Katy Davidson isn't most musicians.
Since last year's We'll Have a Time, the Dear Nora singer moved from Portland to San Francisco and recorded The New Year EP without the other two-thirds of her band. The result is a lo-fi collection of contemplative pop songs that serves as the perfect soundtrack for sipping chamomile tea and sifting through old photographs.
"When I am old I'll look back at the way I was / And time will feel so dark like every year's a deeper hue," Davidson sings on the title track. If that sounds a little more gloomy than nostalgic, it's because she seems kinda worried about growing old. But her beautifully sad, almost weary voice and carefully considered touches like a wistful flute solo present aging as nothing but graceful.
Issue #30
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