Press Overview

Bentley’s Bandstand: May 2020

Song of the Month
Important Trash, “Fancy You.” Sometimes a song has just so much of itself it sounds like it comes from its very own world. Which is a fine thing. Singer-songwriter Mary Parker definitely exists in a time of her own, and on this song from an upcoming album has taken on herself producing and performing everything on it. No problem, because that helps give “Fancy You” such a strong and solitary vision. Perhaps Parker was a pop music fan in her youth, or possibly she lived on the classical side of the podium. Either way she has fashioned a mini-masterpiece on “Fancy You,” which sounds like it could have fallen out of David Lynch’s secret stash of favorite singles. There is an air of otherness in Parker’s vocal, breathy but still grounded to the earth. And the instrumental arrangement and performance floats through air with hypnotic precision. There hasn’t been a song like this in awhile. Because whatever world we’re all going to in the future we will need new music like “Fancy You” to take us there. This is it.

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