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MH-088 Está Vivo - Carry You To My Mouth  Carry You To My Mouth is the Mush debut from Está Vivo. The four track ep spans styles ranging from inspired indie-rock to tropical-folk to beautifully restrained hazy acoustic ballads with elements that remind of The Magnetic Fields, Spiritualized, Love And Rockets, and The English Beat. Está Vivo's lyrics lend a sophistication to the bedroom-pop production and naturally delivered deep vocals. Whether writing about an infatuation with someone he sees on the street each day or slyly working "Friday I'm in Love" into a song about a girl he meets at a party because it is the first song that they dance to, the lyrics are equal parts charming, carefree, biting and subversive. With productions that range from elegant and sublime to dark and foreboding, Carry You To My Mouth is a genre collision of experimental and pop sensibility. |
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| Está Vivo produces the type of playful, tropical folk that could serve as a soundtrack to a late night beach party - Chicagoist / Not only an exploration into summery, tropical sounds, but also into the intricacies of romance and love - Some Kind Of Awesome / Creating a life-affirming free-for-all wrapped in a lo-fi indie rock / indie folk package with electronic music influences - Spacelab TV |
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| The latest incarnation of Ryan McMahon is called Está Vivo, which means "Is Alive." The choice is a good one, because the music does just that -- creating a life-affirming free-for-all wrapped in a lo-fi indie rock / indie folk package with electronic music influences. It's no surprise at all that he's landed on Mush Records, the home of a wide-ranging and eclectic group of acts all loosely based around experimentation with electronic music. Está Vivo influences range from Spiritualized to Love And Rockets to The English Beat. Ryan spins his tale well, saying "The seed of this band grew out of a Chicago based live electronic act I’ve toured with from 2008 to 2009 (Opening up for acts such as Justice, So-Me, Bloody Beetroots, Danger, Don Rimini, Yelle, Acid Girls, Etc. ). The band known as Bearries disintegrated and this is what has grown from it. I use everything and anything as an influence leaving myself with no limitations to encounter. While mostly writing folk/tropical type tunes, I ultimately just create by what I feel and what comes out is what comes out." - Spacelab TV |
