Midnight Sister’s Juliana Giraffe and Ari Balouzian met while making a low budget film called El Camino Real, a surrealistic tale of starry-eyed Hollywood dreams that inevitably ends in some kind of nightmare scenario. Its shoestring budget suggests it could have been made somewhere during cinema’s silver age, if not for the mischievously hammy performance of Giraffe. Peculiarly enough, El Camino Real also borrows elements of Terry Gilliam’s dystopian masterpiece Brazil, another film in which the protagonist escapes into an unattainable fantasy.
Part of the reason for the prevalence of second-album syndrome is the tendency of artists to cram every good idea they have into their debut, just in case it’s the only chance they get to make a personal statement. In the case of Midnight Sister, a Los Angeles two-piece who turned in a beguiling debut in
Saturn Over Sunset three years ago, the well has evidently not run dry;
Painting the Roses is a delicate tapestry of high concepts, one that takes an appealingly lax approach to genre boundaries.
Singer Juliana Giraffe travelled to Argentina in order to reconnect with her roots during the writing of
this morning, and we ll play some of yours. we won t judge. you don t even know the words to it. i know the words, they started it in the middle of the song. i was lost. rick had a weird mall song. i don t know what it was. macy s song. it was like an elevator song. you admitted it was a mall song. we re going to ask chris wallace what his favorite song is. he doesn t know that we have politics to get to and of course we ll keep playing your songs as you send them in throughout the morning but president-elect trump was doing the final thank you tour stop in mobile, alabama it was pouring rain at one point he said the hell with it, i ll keep the suit on, we ll throw it out later. he was talking about bringing christmas back, as he s doing on all of the stops. during the primary, every pundit, why is he spending time in alabama. he had that massive prally and people are saying have you seen