SARA WENDT: Here's Us (The EP)

Sara Wendt

Here's Us (The EP)

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Alternative pop that sometimes rocks, and a slightly Celtic flavoring...

tracks

1 I'll Be Waiting
2 King of the Ghosts
3 Pretty Dark Knight
4 Here's Us
5 A Word About Last Night
6 Weightless with Love

notes

Sara Wendt's songs from her City Canyons Records EP, HERE'S US, are a study in contrasts, rocking yet delicate and nuanced, tough yet tender, and reflective yet electrifying, featuring haunting overtones that make her music both vivid and dreamy. Sara's music has been described as alternative pop rock with a light sprinkle of Celtic seasoning but that description leaves volumes unsaid. Sara's music, both exhilarating and aching, goes straight through the ear to the heart.
And while Sara's voice may be deceptively gentle at times, there's a power there just under the surface that can and will burst forth. While her debut CD, PARACHUTE charted as a top play on national radio stations and reviewers called her tunes, "music for your dreams," Sara reaches her full powers as an artist with HERE'S US creating lush and beautifully crafted alternative pop music and clothing it in lyrics with the color and brilliance of jewels.

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  • awsome
    author: jessica

    hey sarah it jessie you know im related to john well yeah but its so cool cause like every loves your cd including me so yeah and i just want to tell every body that i know sarah shes soo awsome kk

  • Tense and powerful pop gem!
    author: Jon Sobel, Blogcritics.org

    Sara Wendt's captivating new EP HERE'S US meets the expectations raised by its promotional copy: "rocking yet delicate and nuanced... featuring haunting overtones that make her music both vivid and dreamy." "I'll Be Waiting" is a tense and powerful pop gem. Wendt's sad and beautiful cover of Homer Erotic's "King of the Ghosts" has a sun-baked Mediterranean feel, as her keening wail trades riffs with co-producer Ann Klein's fuzzed-out guitar. The poetry is like an offspring of Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith, and Wendt's wrenching delivery squeezes the most out of it. "Pretty Dark Knight" is a dreamy, Eastern-influenced drone complete with sitar (Klein again). It's a little like The Doors' "The End" turned upside down and inside out. An unexpected chord change in the chorus and the crystalline toll of a bell provide all the drama the song needs. The title track is another catchy pop nugget, this time on the Sarah McLachlan tip.... This is intelligent, variegated music that is perhaps most easily classified as pop-rock, but shouldn't be shoehorned into any such category

  • Sara Wendt defies comparison...
    author: Adam A. Donaldson, Lucid Forge

    Sara Wendt deserves to be heard in some dimly lit, smoke-filled, basement set jazz club in order to give her music the perfect atmospheric accompaniment, and if you close your eyes and imagine you find your self almost there. Wendt's music has been described as alternative pop rock with a sprinkle of Celtic, but that brief description leaves out the numerous other influences heard. Nor can it convey the power of Wendt's voice, which on most tracks is left simmering under the surface, "King of the Ghosts" being the notable exception. Every song is a little microcasum of different musical styles with flourishes of jazz and folk mixed into the pop/rock base. What ever the genre, Wendt defies comparison....

  • A terrific CD!
    author: Mary Gilbert, Guitar Noise

    A reminiscent kind of beautiful and breath of fresh sound from Sara Wendt, HERE'S US is a nice change, giving a romantic, light, breeze of feminine tone emoting and all in all a terrific CD! Sara's voice has a familiar type of ring to it. Every track on Here's Us has a visual impact and is cleverly written, rock with a soft side. I think any lover of the old Joni Mitchell classics will absolutely love the sound of Sara's voice and HERE'S US. The haunting, elusive track King of the Ghosts is my personal favorite - it has a Spanish flavor and Sara's voice covers the full range and explodes with feeling between melodic twists, it is a truly beautiful song. The title track is also quite uplifting and romantic but very upbeat and compliments perfectly the tracks that follow, which are much more reflective, with a full emotional power that Sara seems to weave quite naturally.

  • get this!
    author: randy woolf

    i am loving this CD. great songs, and lovely, lovely singing....also, fantastic guitar arrangements.

  • author: Julia

    Provocative and surprising lyrics, beautiful tunes, inventive arrangements, great voice. Not a run-of-the-mill, wanna-be-a-star performance, this CD has bona fide musicality. And Wendt actually has something of value to share with her listeners, both lyrically and musically. I keep finding myself wanting to listen to it again -- a very good sign that this recording has staying power.

  • Sara Wendy delivers the goods r-e-a-l good!
    author: Richard Hawke

    I was fortunate enough to catch Sara Wendt live at a club in New York not long ago and she and her band were playing tunes from the new CD. All I can say is, you should be very envious of me. This woman knows how to write a song and she knows how to deliver a song. I've checked out the CD and she delivers the goods equally spectacularly here. These songs do so much in so short a period of time, it's astounding. Compelling, literate and fun lyrics and great tunes and production. There's a lot going on here.

  • Each song tells a story that stays within your heart.
    author: RG

    Here’s Us is a beautiful assortment of music. From rock and roll to soft ballads, each song tells a story that gets inside your head and stays within your heart. The luscious melodies and poignant words make me long for the movie versions of the songs!

  • Great CD!!
    author: Tony

    Great CD and love the tunes!! Great production too!! Keep up the great work !! :o)

  • Just grabbed me and didn't let go!
    author: Amy Lotsberg, Collected Sounds

    I liked this EP immediately. The melody of "I'll be Waiting" just grabbed me and didn't let go. It not only has the great tune, but it has that essential rise and fall, the quite verse, then the climb of the chorus. Very nice. Then "King of Ghosts" came on and I was in love. This is such a great song. It's got a very haunting sound (yeah, duh, it's about ghosts, right?) but that twangy spooky guitar is addictive. The fact that she uses minor keys also adds to the effect. Then you throw her swooping vocals on top of that and how can you not be in love with this song? This is a really good EP. I recommend it highly... I hope to hear a full length from Sara Wendt soon.

  • Wonderful & Otherworldly
    author: Jory Snipes

    If you like alternative rock with Celtic influences, you'll love Sara Wendt. If that's not your cup of tea...you won't. But it's definitely a great EP to pick up.

  • Wendt is Now, Excellent Mix, Harmony, lyrics and sound
    author: Don Palko

    I like the following for these reasons: "King of the Ghosts" - Eagles reminiscent, Lou Reed like narrative (up an octave) "Pretty Dark Knight" - great instrumentation, Sarah's Vocal delivery excellent, like the lyrics "Here's Us" - I give the beat a 10 :) Sarah's intonation, - I like, harmony with Ann very nice "A Word About Last Night" - hit, Hit, HIT!! "Weightless With Love" - younger sound, with it Looking forward to the next release.... Don

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