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Originally from Detroit, Gibson came to Los Angeles five years ago with the band name Breech-an homage to Gibson's birth-but no bandmates, and a vision of reforming her band and making it big in alternative rock. "Besides, I like to bake, I'm a good baker. "We have bake sales because there's not that many viable options, you don't make that much money playing shows in Los Angeles," the 33-year-old Silver Lake resident said. It's a recipe that singer Missy Gibson, a warmhearted baker known in some circles as "Betty Rocker," hopes will yield similar results for her band Breech. Local band Breech raises money by hosting old-fashioned bake sales of their singer's wares at concert venues throughout Los Angeles while seeking fortune in its musicįictional food expert and cultural icon Betty Crocker was used to help build a flour-based empire for General Mills by associating a friendly face with family favorites for 80 years. Tarnish and Undress, the now L.A.-based band's fifth release, promises to be a feast for the ears. Originally from Detroit, Gibson is also famous for selling her own baked goods in order to fund the band's releases. In each song, it is always Gibson's pleading lyrics reflecting an abandoned and battered woman that take center stage, and surprising instruments like the accordion and ruined autoharp complete the surreal experience. Similarly, "Keeper of the Key" recalls the guitar opening in Sixpence None the Richer's "Paralyzed," but the drum pattern and Gibson's half-talking lend it a punk flavor. The dreamy instrumental section in "Concealed" provides a nostalgic backdrop for Gibson and producer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Mike Flanagan to create a two-part harmony that rolls perfectly into a pathos and never fully resolves. "Saboteur" starts out alternative but makes a sharp turn as Gibson hits the refrain with tragi-comical glee, and ends with laidback California cool evoked by the pedal steel. However the lyrics "I'm a bad girl / I'm a sinner" reveal a dirtiness that is at once vulnerable yet raw. The album's first track, "Grounded," sets the tone with a tribally percussive instrumental opening, which fans into Missy Gibson's ringing lead vocals in all their strength and purity. This short track gives a taste of the band's fearless ease at distressing rock music with medieval sounds, pushing the definition of indie rock to give birth to a fantastical tale that excites yet seems disconcertingly familiar. Whirlwind guitar riffs and muffled laughter ensue - is this a dream? No, this is "Schubert Waltz," one of the teaser songs in Breech's Tarnish and Undress. Suddenly female singing, by turns cajolingly sweet and fiercely low, slices through the scene.
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