MP3: Hey Anna - "Dance Until Three"
Shortly before my grandfather passed away a number of years ago, he gave me a collection of cassette tapes featuring big band and pop songs from the World War II era. A lot of the groups featured on these compilation tapes were girl groups, the kind with the sweetest, most golden harmonies -- to the point that they sounded just a notch above angelic. Outside the fact that their harmonies were immaculate and they were the epitome of charming, their songs were infectious. Way before auto-tune and modern day recording magic, these ladies were crafting pop perfection during a rather depressing period of history -- so, of course, their sound was all the more rewarding and welcomed.
I always wonder what these girl groups might sound like in a modern context, but outside of the mainstream pop paradigm. With "Dance Until Three," I feel like Hey Anna are the embodiment of that dream, filtered through an indie pop lens.
Naturally, Newark, NJ's Hey Anna started with the core of sisters Anna, Erin, and Katie Rauch-Sasseen who then met up with longtime best friends Andrew Smolin and Matthew Langner. So, Hey Anna is practically a family -- and their cohesiveness as a band will certainly make it sound that way. "Dance Until Three" crosses elements of The Long Blondes, Hospitality, and Vampire Weekend, hooking you with its understated but irresistible marriage of rhythms between guitars, bass, and drums.
"Dance Until Three" is from Hey Anna's forthcoming EP, Pompette. Watch a trailer for the EP below.
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