Monday 17 January 2011



Getcha good

Jenn Grant has the cure for what ails you on Honeymoon Punch

(photo: sixshooterrecords.com)

I just finished watching an episode of Markeplace that’s pissed me off.  It’s all about homeopathic medicine and Erica Johnson’s revelatory debunking of the practice as being nothing but pushing “sugar pills”.  Now, I’m an educated man, I hold a good job, and I consider myself to be open-minded and able to be critical when needed, but I found the whole report to be blatantly biased and one-sided that it was making me physically ill.  I use naturopathic remedies and have used homeopathy at times (alongside and in place of traditional medicine), and maybe I can’t go into a laboratory and “prove” to you how or why things work, but I also can’t explain why some music has a medicinal effect on the soul and spirit–but it does.

So throughout this investigative report, as Erica Johnson keeps repeating the phrase “sugar pills” over and over again, my thoughts turned to a recent sugar pill I’d been overdosing on:  Jenn Grant.  The PEI-bred, Haifax-based songstress released her third album proper, Honeymoon Punch last week, and it’s sticky sweet melodies are as good a cure to the winter blues as anything peddled over the counter at my local big-box pharmacy.  On songs like “Getcha Good” Grant swells with a sense of joy and happiness that’s infectious that’s blossoms into beautifully arranged passages that could easily be the soundtrack for elaborately choreographed flash mobs in an unsuspecting civic square.

[ADDENDUM: I know you're NOT going to believe me when I say this, but after writing this post--and embedding the video--I actually went and watched the video for "Getcha Good" and sat in stunned silence as an elaborately choreographed flash mob danced across my screen.  My blogging is becoming prophetic.]

It’s a welcome change from her last record, 2009′s Echoes, which sometimes tended to fall on the more serious side of life.  It’s not all levity and lightness on Honeymoon Punch but Grant has struck a great balance between light and dark that pervades the whole record.  It’s the perfect cure for what ails you, if what ails you is negative nellies who are just intent on making people feel bad about the things that make them feel good.

Honeymoon Punch is out now on Six Shooter Records.

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