Susan James Music

What the Critics are saying about Susan James:

• "She is like no one else."- The Los Angeles Times
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• "Susan James is the best of the new breed of women musicians...I think she`s the new Ani Di Franco!" - Rodney Bingenheimer; KROQ-Radio Los Angeles
• "Susan James` style might be best described as acoustic grunge." Orange County Register; Mark Brown
• "A series of heart-torn songs that are clever, defiant, amusing and poignant by turns...have similar early-Joni Mitchell intelligence and poetic flair." The Washington Post
• "Fantastic Album!" Rolling Stone USA; David Fricke
• "Susan James is a young discovery, a dynamic triple threat. Like Venus springing full-blown from the forehead of Zeus, she`s an artist who has emphatically managed to establish her signature as a singer, songwriter and powerful acoustic guitarist. The achievemnt speaks well both for her unwavering commitment and her future." - Dramalogue; Jason McCloskey
• "The loveliest album I have ever heard ! Mixing a powerful sexy voice to her own acoustic fingerings, James achieves an artistic sound without being harnassed by major label overproduction." - Vanguard; Kimberly Adams
• "To hear her is to like her ! In a field of starry-eyed, post-Lilith female folkies it`s getting harder to scythe the wheat from the chaff. Which is why the latest entry from crafty Californian Susan James comes as such a brow- wiping relief: it doesn`t whine, it doesn`t jangle, it doesn`t mask vague Naomi Wolf-ism in vitriolic hyperbole. Instead, it slithers along on its muscled Gothic belly via murky Joy Division chords, confident straight-from-the heart vocals and metaphors plucked from everyday existence, not some snooty college textbook." - Musician; Tom Lanham
• "If you can imagine Leo Kottke and Jeff Buckley jamming with Stereolab, then you`ve only just begun to live and riotously rock your way through the wobulus world of Susan James. The production certainly sounds like a perfect marriage between analog and digital and I wish more records today had that balance and feel. The album only can be described as fantastic. Bravo!" Yeah Yeah Yeah; - Morley Bartnoff
• "A west coast folkie with a voice like Sinead O`Connor and a sensibility to Liz Phair. Fantastic indeed." - Creative Loafing; Gregory Nicoli
• "Loaded with talent. A boffo set of pop tunes graced with pungent words,imposing chops and some of the most head-curving arrangements ever heard from a `singer/songwriter`". - L.A. Weekly; John Payne
• "One listen is likely to wake up your ass right up. James` puts a unique spin on her influences, drawing on World Music at least as much as she does on Western Folk and from a variety of individual musicians that transcends gender, genre and instrument. All of this marrid to a decidedly pop aestethic. Sound weird ? It is.-Susan James is unpredictable, unexpected and exactly what you`ve been waiting for!" - Weekly Alibi; Michael Henningsen
• "She`s a stunner...but it was her music that was the magnet. Her voice rises and falls like a gentle waterfall...She strummed with gusto as well as grace". - Cleveland Plain Dealer; Jane Scott
• "Riveting !" - San Francisco Bay Guardian; Derek Richardson

Zillo:

"Betörende Folksongs voller Kraft und Phantasie - eine Songwriterin der absoluten Oberklasse !"

Spex:

"Fans von Penelope Houston und Sonya Hunter sollten unbedingt reinhören !"

Intro:

"Eine exzellente und eigenständige Songschreiberin. Punkt ! Schöne Platte. Ehrlich !"

ME/Sounds (4 Sterne):

"Stark und hochgewachsene Folkrocker. Bei den kunstvollen aber ausgelüfteten Arrangements bekommt ihr selbstbewusster, bald experimenteller Gesang erst wirklich den Raum, den er benötigt. Dann darf Susan James hellauf strahlen !"

Saarbrücker Zeitung (Heisse Scheibe):

"Vielseitig und vielschichtig mit Stil und Emotion - ergänzt durch jene erfrischende Portion Kraftbürstigkiet, die man Charakter nennt ."

Onstage:

"Schnittmenge von P.J. Harvey, Dolly Parton und Jeff Buckley. Klingt irgendwie komisch, ist irgendwie aber auch sexy."

Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung:

"Zuhören muss man schon, um die Schönheit der skurillen Lieder zu erfassen !"

Kieler Nachrichten:

"Joni Mitchell für die Post-Nirvana-Generation oder auch Jeff Buckley als Mädchen."

Dresdner Neue Nachrichten:

"Ein nachhaltiger Beweis dafür, das sich die Szene über fehlende interessante und zudem neue Frauenstimmen nicht beklagen muss ! Lädt zum Entdecken ein, wenn man hinter Töne und Akkorde zu steigen in der Lage ist !"

Nahe-Zeitung:

"Ein Super-Talent !"