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Ambullette
Posted by Editorial Intern on 31-May-06 @ 02:44 PM|
HQ: Richmond, VA/Chicago, IL
NOW PLAYING: The LotteryEP (ASTRALWERKS;astralwerks.com) WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW 'EM:Former Denali singer/guitarist Maura Davis belts so powerfully in her new project, you'll forget you cried when her last band broke up. YOU LIKE? YOU'LL LIKE: Denali / Vedera / Pinebender Maura Davis' commute to band practice takes about two hours--provided you don't factor in the time she spends dealing with airport security, traveling to and from the airport and sitting through inclement weather. See, unlike many singers of established bands, Davis has to jet all the way to Chicago from her hometown of Richmond, Virginia, anytime she wants to rehearse with Ambulette's other three members. "Most bands practice a couple times a week because they live in the same town together," Davis says, "but with us, I'd go to Chicago a couple days before tour [for] practice, and then we'd be on the road and be like, 'This is weird!' Toward the middle of tours, we'd [finally] start to feel comfortable." Davis formed her long-distance musical relationship with guitarist Matt Clark, bassist Stephen Howard and drummer Ryan Rapsys in 2004, shortly after the sudden breakup of her former band, Denali. And while the frontwoman, who admits she was "en route to being an opera singer" during college, has the benefit of bigger production behind her pipes this time out, lyrically speaking, she's using the same formula to write the atmospheric, emotionally desperate songs on Ambulette's debut EP, The Lottery, as she did in her old band. "I just talk about myself all the time," Davis says. "In real life, I'm not really one to talk about myself a lot, so it's pretty scary to do that. I just made a conscious decision to do that. People like hearing stuff from the heart; that sounds cheesy, but people like hearing that stuff. I decided to go with it and take a chance." If only all self-involvement sounded so sweet. -Emily Zemler |
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