Etro Anime stood out during the support act she provided for Kosheen. The varied repertoire of this New York formation includes intelligent drum'n'bass, easily digestible breakbeat, exciting trip hop and the necessary soul and jazz influences. The music of the compositions sounds neat and tidy. Highly elaborated arrangements, where everything is exactly in place, give See The Sound on its own all
… the qualities with which they can establish themselves in the higher regions of today's jazz. But the vocals add even more to that. The sound of singer Liset Alea is both melancholic and cheerful. Where the singers of Portishead and Massive Attack rather put the listener in a depressed mood, Alea's voice is raised by her unmistakably cheerful disposition. This will undoubtedly be due to her Cuban origins, because even in the slowest trip-hop song (Let It Go) she sounds happy. See The Sound should be prescribed by any reasonable doctor for depressive symptoms. (AD)more
