Little Grey House is a collection of nine songs that I wrote on an old guitar and a crappy out-of-tune piano in my small, grey house on Luxton Avenue in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Before I recorded the songs, I moved out West and into a cramped, dimly-lit, beige basement suite, and I missed my old house and all the details about Winnipeg that had made its way into the atmosphere of the songs; the old Elms along the boulevards, the long ice-cold winters, the “blurred-out-fields and miles of grain”.
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“…this alt-folk outing [is] tailor-made for rainy Sundays or late-September campfires.
What keeps McMechan out of the coffee-house ghetto are the album’s little touches. She’s not afraid to augment her understated acoustic playing with soft-focus accordion and warm electric guitar, and she avoids easy rhymes in favour of narrative lyrics such as “He said sometimes he sees himself in dreams running down the highway.
Best of all, unlike 90 percent of folk-oriented grrrls with guitars, she doesn’t sound like a poor woman’s Jewel. As with Kimya Dawson, Fiona Apple, and Ani DiFranco, there’s something about McMechan’s voice that’s powerfully unique, and she uses it to maximum effect on songs like the fragile ‘Half-Way Through Me’.”
-Mike Usinger, Georgia Straight (Vancouver)
“What gets me about Kim McMechan’s music is her ability to just make everything disappear. She has a knack for saying what needs to be said. Raw, honest emotion… “——-Jeff McCann, christrock.com (Toronto)
“Oustanding! This girl makes conversation with music.”
-Jane Eamon, Muse’s Muse Magazine
“The album’s nine tracks reveal a gentle, angelic, almost child-like voice, not unlike that of Sarah Harmer’s, singing sometimes melancholy, sometimes uplifing songs of life experiences. The lyrics have an intimate, poetic style to them, no surprise, coming from a poet turned songwriter.”
-Mike Youds, Kamloops Daily News
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