Ropes is a duo headed by Achico-san, formerly KAREN, and Art-School's guitarist.
She's been going around a lot doing a lot of shows with HINATA and Kinoshita Riki/The Novembers/Lostage & co. (They're all the same group of friends).
Also, I was interested in checking their show out after seeing their set on the HINATA UStream show... She had really cool tunes.
So it was my first time at Shimokita Three... For some reason, I've never been here for a show, I wonder why..
They were playing with another band Ilama.. But yeah.. I only went for Ropes haha!
So the set!
They played about 6 songs...
Being a duo most of their songs are guitar based, and apparently, although they started out wanting to play this show as an acoustic, the guitarist felt better playing the electric guitar. haha!
Achico-san has a really, really, really amazing voice that she controls perfectly and uses it to carve the textures of the songs. Amazing!
Of all the female vocalists' I've heard, Achico-san has the best voice.
Being just a duo on a guitar and synthesizer, naturally a lot of these bohemian-type bands would fall into an experimental-indie sound, but not so with Ropes. They maintain a nice balance between indie-vocals-pop-rock... sorta... Very radio friendly, of course, a band which is very accessible which I am sure anyone listening would definitely like.
I'm looking forward to the release of their first record in the Fall.
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