Bill Murray: “Whenever I write a song I think, ‘Would Bill Murray write this, if he wrote music?’ or ‘Would Bill Murray hang out with this idiot?’ If the answer is yes,” she said, "I go for it. If not, I decline. Throughout it all, Negadhari’s jagged fretwork — inspired by guitar greats like Pete Townshend and Eddie Van Halen — punches through. I wrote the majority of these songs in 2007, the year I isolated and immersed myself in writing ... My goal was to create an album that was very melodic but still had different song and guitar styles — finger-picking and tapping, fast strums and slow rhythms — and somehow make it all cohesive." It worked. For a beneath-the-radar debut, Spells is a rough but seductive mash of noise, pop and adrenaline. Full Article at Wired