Sugar Beat!

On Sugar Beat -- her fourth album under the nom de disque astroPuppees -- singer-songwriter-producer Kelley Ryan expands her sonic palette to include “monkey bell,” “pants rub,” and “pastry brush on toy tin drum” as well as guitars, bass, Casio, loops, and vocals.

Recorded in her Los Angeles home basement and in Cork, Ireland, Sugar Beat is the astroPuppees’ second album for Ryan’s independent Manatee Records label. The first, Little Chick Tsunami, was issued in 2002; two previous astroPuppees discs, You Win The Bride and Pet, were released on Oakland, CA-based indie High Tone Records in 1996 and 1999, respectively.

One of the main reasons Ryan chooses to record under the astroPuppees moniker is that the name’s plural implications enable her to enlist the talents of a free-floating pool of collaborators. Don Dixon -- whose credits include producing the first three R.E.M. albums -- mixed and sequenced Sugar Beat, adding upright bass to the wistful, kite-like ballad, “Twisting Around The Blue.” (continued here...)

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• Check out the Photos section for several new pictures of the sessions.

Critics Love little chick tsunami

little chick tsunami is available in the United States on Manatee Records! Ten great new Kelley Ryan songs played and performed by Kelley and friends, including 2 with Gin Blossoms' Jesse Valenzuela. It can be purchased right here.

• Cosmic Debris review of 'Little Chick Tsunami' - January 2003
• Cosmic Debris review of 'Little Chick Tsunami' - March 2003
• Delusions of Adequacy review of 'Little Chick Tsunami'
• Link 19 Review of 'Little Chick Tsunami