By Robert Christgau, All Things Considered, NPR
Merrill Garbus is a ukulele-playing Smith College graduate with a long musical history in folk-based projects. Her recordings under the name tUnE-yArDs reflect her study abroad in Kenya, her work in puppet theater and her experience as a nanny on Martha's Vineyard.
Although tUnE-yArDs' album, BiRd-BrAiNs, was created the postmodern way — with a laptop and a digital voice recorder — Garbus is a staunch bohemian who's big on slowing life down. She says the hard-to-type spelling of her band was "intended to annoy people" and figures the digital distortion of her rather large voice will do the same. But she loves that vocal sound, and considering the idealized beauty large-voiced folkies generally cultivate, I say, "You go, woman."
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