QMR
2000
Little Light
About This Album
Four years passed between GrooveLily's 1996 debut Jungle and Sky and its next full-length album, Little Light. Between those two CDs, the group's members had no problem keeping busy. Keyboardist Brendan Milburn had a 1998 side project called Brendan & the Extenuating Circumstances, while lead singer/violinist Valerie Vigoda spent a lot of time backing major artists like Cher, Cyndi Lauper, and Joe Jackson. And as a group, GrooveLily provided a 1997 EP titled GrooveLily Sampler. By 2000, a new full-length album was overdue, and Little Light has no problem living up to the promise of Jungle and Sky; if anything, it's slightly stronger. Like before, GrooveLily favors an introspective, poetic approach to pop/rock. Subtlety usually prevails on this CD and, although expressive, Vigoda doesn't beat you over the head to get her points across. But for all their subtle introspection, tracks like "Captain of a Ship on Fire," "Weight of the World," and "Prayer for the Unrequited" are never wimpy; in GrooveLily's hands, sensitive doesn't mean wimpy or waifish. To her credit, Vigoda knows how to let her sensitivity show without coming across as a victim or a fragile waif.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,6 and 9)

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