The Sweet Bitters Sing About Seventh Avenue

Check out this duo of Park Slope singer/songwriters. I heard about them on Lucid Culture.

Here's how they describe themselves:

Sweet Bitters is a harmony-based acoustic duo serving up tasty, flavorful folk-pop. Or pop-folk. Whatever. Sweet Bitters was created by two Brooklyn-based singer-songwriters, Sharon and Nina, who started blending their voices and said to themselves, "This harmony thing is fun." Sharon liked singing on Nina’s songs and Nina liked singing on Sharon’s songs. And they sounded sweet -- but not too sweet. A little bit of bitter thrown in was just right.

Their influences are The Roches, Aimee Mann, The Indigo Girls, Elliott Smith, R.E.M., Girlyman, Simon and Garfunkel, The Byrds, Squeeze, CC Railroad, Molly Pitcher, Aimee van Dyne Band, Allison Krauss, Eliza Gilkyson.

Not bad.

They have a song called "Falling Into Place" that's about a late afternoon walk up Seventh Avenue in the winter. It's real pretty. One of the few songs I know about Seventh Avenue.

Cool. They played at Perch over the weekend. Sorry I didn't make it.