ARRICA ROSE BEATS OUT SCARLETT JOHANSSEN FOR BEST TOM WAITS COVER OF THE YEAR

    /24-7PressRelease/ - June 07, 2008 - According to Cover Lay Down who covers artists that do covers of famous songs the author wrote the following:
"Rose is a relative newcomer whose second album La La Lost is getting decent radioplay but not much blogpress after a mid-April release. Her version of I Hope... is the sole cover on an album which moves fluidly from lo-fi yet popgrungy singer-songwriter tunes that call to Juliana Hatfield or Mary Lou Lord to reasonably powerful indiefolk originals reminiscent of early Ani DiFranco. The sound is good, if a bit too diverse. But the big appeal here is singer-songwriter and indierock pin-up girl Arrica Rose's beautiful but broken voice: unusually hoarse and strangled, as if on the verge of tears, with a subtle and gentle delivery that gets lost in a bigger sound. And when the production steps back and lets that beautiful, broken instrument come forward, the songs really shine.

Today's coversong is one of the most intimate and most successful cuts on the album. Here, the abovementioned elements combine with the lyrical longing of the original to create a breathtaking transformation of what was already an unusually powerful song. Where Waits' original is as broken as his voice, Rose brings us a narrator who is immeasurably fragile, as if she could break any second. The stakes of the narrative dilemma are raised accordingly. The result is a stunningly beautiful, bittersweet cover which both transcends and revitalizes the original.

It's hard to imagine a better Waits cover coming at us this year. But don't take my word for it. Listen for yourself, and then pick up La La Lost for the originals: "

The review speaks for it self. On top of this brilliant review the La La Lost CD(pOprOck recOrds} is playing on over 170 stations across the countryand is a popular seller on itunes not only in America, but also in France and Great Britian.

Arrica Rose will be touring in the midwest, New York and San Francisco. She is currently collaborating with singer-songwriter Charlotte Martin and is the managing director of IHeart, an LA based charity Foundation donating all funds to local charities.

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