Ears Wide Open: Carly and the Universe
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The playful indie-soul on Carly and the Universe’s debut album “The Whole Shabang” is so endearing that we’re almost forgiving them for not consulting a dictionary for the proper spelling of “shebang.” Almost. The band is comprised of Carly Liza along with George Fry, Cameron Clarke and Young Creatures’ Mike Post and Spencer King, but it is the singer’s cherubic voice that’s at the center of the whole shebang. While her players keep things tasteful, she waxes open-hearted about the ones that got away, the one she’s hanging on to, and how it feels to be a “Love Savant” — someone who, finding it impossible to act nonchalant, is always “bending over backwards / for this fallacy.”
||| Stream: “So Close” and “Two People”
||| Live: Carly and the Universe, along with Young Creatures, play Friday night at the Hotel Café.
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