Released October 7th, 2008 on Mush Records.
The notes I wrote on this album states that if Amy Millan's "Blood From The Tombs" were used in an indie film it would be for the part where the two main characters break up, and Her Space Holiday's "XOXO" would be the party soundtrack in which they meet and fall in love. It is a light sounding, fun record but when you listen to the album it is much deeper than the surface beauty.
In my opinion the best recordings are full of not huge dense moments, but instead records full of light sounding moments that are dense underneath the vocals and lead instruments. Little bleeps and boops or exotic instrumentation that coalesces the album and makes the album somewhat deeper from the little nuances. "XOXO" is full of these little moments and they are scattered throughout the album. Hand claps, which my sister demands is an essential part of any great song, abound, and it makes sense looking at the band's bio and seeing that it is greatly the project of one man, Marc Bianchi, who essentially started as an electronic artist but now is working the folk into his creations. Knowing that it was the work of basically one man makes "XOXO" all that more fun, and even more impressive.
Rating - 4 and 1/2 out of 5
Favorite Track - "Sleepy Tigers"
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