Ill Ease - The Whole Sha-Bang!

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4...according to our Brian on Thu 05 Mar, 2009.

The lovely Ill Ease is back with a 7" on the reliable Parlour records. I recall she used to drum in New Radiant Storm King and her slightly wonky, infectious take on indie reminds me of Life Without Buildings a bit, crossed with her old band. That's on one side at least, I can't tell which is which as the labels are maps, with little or no information on. I like her voice, she's got character. The other side reminds the gaffer a bit of Apples in Stereo, sing-song cyclical fuzzy pop, excecuted in a slightly sideways, dreamy fashion, her music is hook-filled, sweetly repetitive & hypnotic and is completely loaded with charm & individuality. She had stuff out on Too Pure years ago, if you liked that (which many of you did) get 'The Whole Sha-bang!', you bumweazels.

Brooklyn New York’s ill ease is the 1-woman band of multi-instrumentalist Elizabeth Sharp -- with Elizabeth Sharp playing guitar, bass, drums, tambourine, shaker and anything else that shakes, rattles or buzzes in a whirlwind of Rolling Stones b-sides, all scratched and skipping to a New York noise beat.

In 2008, ill ease returned to the UK for a 3rd national tour, a BBC6 Marc Riley session, and to record The Whole Sha Bang 7”. The 7” was recorded with Adam Dean (Dead Kids) and mastered at Abbey Road.

The A-side, ‘Here Comes Trouble’, the album version of which was released at the end of 2008 in the US under the full title, Here Comes Trouble (To The Tune of Pretty Woman), was immediately singled out and recognized by the US press as being both not remotely related to the tune of Roy Orbison’s Pretty Woma,n and as being “addictive and danceable, [it] inspires clapping and singing in no time!” (The Deli NYC).

The AA-side, ‘What Makes Your Heart Go Boom (Boom Boom Sha Bang Sha Boom)’, will make your heart go boom boom.

Ill Ease has released several studio albums, the most recent of which have been released on Ionik Records, Cochon Records, and Too Pure/Beggars Records. All have been well-received by the US press and have charted in the Top 200 on radio charts. Over the past 3 years, ill ease has toured extensively around the US, Canada, UK and Europe, opening for bands such as Deerhoof, Battles, Peter, Bjorn and John, Marnie Stern and No Age.

Prior to ill ease, Elizabeth Sharp played drums in New Radiant Storm King (Homestead Records, Grass/BMG Records) and bass in Skinner Pilot (Goodsin Records). She is also an accomplished photographer whos work appears in the Museum of Modern Art NY

Track Listing:
A. Here Comes Trouble (to the tune of Pretty Woman)
AA. What Makes Your Heart Go Boom? (Boom Boom Sha-Bang Sha-Boom)

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