Music Review

Chrominance Decoder (1999)

April March
Reviewed by Will Hermes | Feb 05, 1999
EW's GRADE
B-

Details Release Date: Feb 02, 1999; Lead Performance: April March; Genre: Rock

Fey ho, let's go! Preciousness is a virtue to this former Ren & Stimpy Show animator, April March (nee Elinor Blake), who dresses up as a '60s French chanteuse and coos through a modish set of Mancini-style pop tunes, cha-chas, bossa novas, and exotica retreads awash with oddball orchestrations and analog synth chirps. Chrominance Decoder's all very sunny and arch, and sonically never less than pleasant. But after a while the deadpanning gets a bit, well, deadening. B-

Originally posted Feb 05, 1999 Published in issue #470 Feb 05, 1999 Order article reprints

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