If you've never heard of Bitter:Sweet you've been missing out. To crib their own self-description, "Portishead meets Zero 7 with a bit of Serge Gainsbourg and Everything But The Girl mixed in for good measure." That's a decent start, but doesn't even begin to describe how good they are.

What's surprising is how many people have actually heard Bitter:Sweet without even knowing that they've heard Bitter:Sweet. This studio duo has been featured on... everything including TV, movies, commercials, theme songs, and when you hear them you realize why. They are silky, sexy, smooth, jazz, trip-hop, rolled into the most sultry songs you have ever heard.

Shana Halligan provides vocals/lyrics, and Kiran Shahani, produces and writes the music. Kiran was previously in Supreme Beings of Leisure, another fun electronic band.

Check out their MySpace for a taste of their studio recordings, then immediately go out, or log on, and buy their debut album, The Mating Game, savor it for a while, then buy their follow-up, Drama. While at their MySpace be sure to check out the non-album Serj Tankian version of Drama... Good stuff.

The good news is, that they are just as good live. I had a chance to check them out in Dallas last year at the House of Blues Cambridge Room, and it was the perfect venue to watch Shana strut up and down the stage in a captivating evening gown, singing her heart out, and hypnotizing every man in the room. We were with a pretty big group, and everyone, guys and girls, left a happy camper.

Here's a couple of tracks from the show - looking forward to them coming back to Texas!

Live MP3 MP3s:
Moving Forward
The Bomb

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