I ended up double booking myself on a review of the Chapin Sisters' debut Lake Bottom and found that, while the top notes of pure vocal gorgeousness arrested me the first time around, the undercurrents of darkness came through the second. Here's a bit from my second, more downbeat review (not that I didn't like the record this time, it just seemed more murderous) up at PopMatters right now: "Consider, for example, the lovely 'Let Me Go', which opens in a splatter of guitar notes, then adds the heady, slow syrup of three female voices in harmony...'My baby hates me...' sings one sister, taking the dusky lead, while her siblings surge in wordless sweetness behind her. 'Let me go', she continues, 'I'm so tired of being untrue / Gonna let you find someone that'll do more than I do'. The 'do' becomes a baroque vocal flourish, the simple stem of the song flowering into curlicues and arabesques at its peripheries. The song is interesting, not just for its interplay of luminous harmony and dark subject matter, but because it flips the expected. It's the narrator, a woman, who has done wrong and she wants to be punished for it, unlike so many blues songs where a female mourns the transgressions of another. For women, who are, I think, prone as a gender to self-examination and self-hatred, it's a moment of naked revelation...the 'it's my fault' that's always on our lips given form and expression and melody."Or, it could just be me...I dunno.Since these girls are so very, very pretty (in addition to talented and, judging from the bios, super smart), I'm putting up a video instead of audio:More here: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/57480/the-chapin-sisters-lake-bottom/Of course, there's more at the MySpacehttp://www.myspace.com/thechapinsisters