The Ditty Bops March 7, 2007

The Ditty Bops are Amanda Barrett and Abby Dewald, a pair of California artists who have bewitched LA's musical pleasure-seeking crowd with their pure-voiced harmonies, magnetic personalities, and brilliant strummin'n'fretting (Abby on guitar and Amanda on mandolin and dulcimer). The duo's self-titled debut was produced by Mitchell Froom (Suzanne Vega, Crowded House, Elvis Costello). Jesca Hoop is a striking, dark haired songwriter from Northern California who writes and sings twisty, sprawling, lyrically abstract songs featuring strange sonorities and offbeat rhythms. Her music sounds as is it comes from an imaginary country, and she sings in the accented English of someone from that country.