The Bandana Splits – All You Gotta Do Is Fall In Love
The Bandana Splits are a trio from Brooklyn who style themselves as a sugary sweet mash-up of Andrew Sisters’ vocal harmonies with 40s-60s kitsch, country and rock’n’roll. While this is the debut of the group, it seems like these girls have been at it for a bit, particularly Dawn Landes who makes some rather lovely country-inspired singer songwriter music on her own. As a group, I’m actually more interested to see where this all goes. With their photogenic good looks, matching attire and Brooklyn hipster cred, the band seems poised to make a mighty splash as soon as they are plucked from obscurity. But what will the next record sound like? That’s a question that interests me more than everything on this debut. In fact, there are so many moments on this debut that are just so self-consciously cutesy that I hesitated to suggest it at all. But when the girls just get down to the business, as they do on what I think is the best and most effective song on this album “All You Gotta Do Is Fall In Love,” the sound is damn near perfection.
As more evidence of what I was saying above (both for better and for worse) here’s the video for their lead single “Sometimes”…good luck washing the cuteness off of you after watching this: