Coco Rosie Noah’s Ark (Touch & Go) Oddball American sister act Coco Rosie, aka Sierra and Bianca Cassady, follow up last year’s cult hit, La Maison De Mon Reve, with a further collection of spooky, ethereal experiments in high class songs and lo-fi production. With guest spots from new-found friends Devendra Banhart and Anthony And The Johnsons, among countless other minor stars, from mewling kittens and braying horses to baaing sheep and croaking bird-life, it’s a magical, mystical brew, all perfectly complementing the Cassady’s deranged operatics, strange poetry and haunting melodies. You’ll be hard-pushed to find a more bizarrely original, yet readily accessible and enchanting record, this year.

Hobbes 

Published by The List, September 2005 and reproduced with their kind permission.