Please be mine

"Molly Burch is here to make an impression. On her charmingly-retro debut album 'Please Be Mine', the Austin-based songwriter says hello to the world with ten lightweight love songs that make one thing remarkably clear: we've got a serious singer on our hands ... Burch pairs her vocal prowess with a sound that bears the marks of '60s-era girl groups like The Shirelles and The Ronettes. Potent notes of salt-stained surf rock also soak through, most noticeably with the Beach Boys-style harmonies that are generously caked onto 'Not Today' ... This is the kind of record that can be left to play straight through without fearing the ambiance-suck of the odd filler track, and while its occasionally guilty of painting with broad strokes - losing in intimacy what it gains in accessibility and live-concert appeal- 'Please Be Mine' will go down as a hugely self-assured debut offering from one of indie's most promising new acts".

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"Please Be Mine is a collection of reverb-washed love songs by Molly Burch. The indie pop singer brings along a childhood of watching classic movie musicals, a degree in jazz vocal performance, and an affection for the vocal era, girl groups, and Brill Building pop to her debut. The retro sounds befit the smoky, sultry voice of a vocalist who counts Patsy Cline among her chief influences. Burch and her band, which includes Dailey Toliver (Adam Torres) on lead guitar, recorded the album live at Dan Duszynski's studio in a single day, save for a few overdubs. In the process, they weaved rhythms of bygone nightclubs and saddle-shoe proms into echoes of dream pop and, on occasion, '80s sophisti-pop for a composite consistent with the contemporary indie scenes of Brooklyn, London, or in Burch's case, Austin, Texas".

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"Austin transplant Molly Burch boasts experience her muses didn't: formal training. The singer decamped from her native Los Angeles for the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where she studied jazz vocal performance. The move pays off on LP debut Please Be Mine. Emulating her nonacademic counterparts while updating Fifties pop, she channels Dusty Springfield's willowy whispers and Patsy Cline's warble".

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