Jonagold, Cave Cricket, Julia Read, Elizabeth Devlin

Acousticexperimentalpop // Applecore


Cave Cricket is the music of Kira Sassano, Kevin & Steve Yankou and Natasha Jacobs. Their music is self described as feminvironmentalist drone folk.


"Saturday night marked my first time seeing Read play, but there was something about her that struck me as deeply familiar. Within the opening notes on her violin I quickly scrawled down three words in my notebook: female Sam Amidon.
Their music is not polished and poppy, but raw. Read has the beefed up voice of a 1940s Disney heroine – one who clearly doesn't need rescuing.

But the similarities between the two young musicians extend further than the music itself. Both have this amazing earnest, little kid purity about them. Staring straight ahead in her over-sized t-shirt and loose-fitting Dickies, Read has the kind of crazed, wide-eyed look you can't help but mimic a little, like a baby in a social psychology experiment." - Sonic Smörgåsbord

"Fireworks" by Julia Read from Look Sessions on Vimeo.


"Elizabeth Devlin, with her haunting combination of lilting voice and enchanting autoharp, is a self-produced NYC singer-songwriter who's been likened to artists such as Joanna Newsom. Staying away from traditional musical structure with many of her songs, she builds miniature narratives, such as with her new song, "A Chorus Divine," which she performed for us at her apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn." -Breakthru Radio: Hear & There, August 2012

"It's in the way Devlin sings in the same soft, fluttering voice, the way her songs wander without a traditional structure or even a chorus, and the way she paints abstract narratives with lyrics that feel more like poetry than song." -CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND, October 2011

"On Thursday night, for instance, the headliner was Elizabeth Devlin, who sang her densely packed and surreal verses about the stew of being a woman over an autoharp, her little girl's voice riding coyly over the weirdly discordant harmonies she traced with her hands. (She read Walt Whitman's poetry between songs.) " -NY Times Artsbeat, Sept 22, 2011

"First we had Elizabeth Devlin playing a show on her own, high voice and cooool melodies on autoharp, it was like having Pj Harvey playing her latest album at home." -ROCKERPARIS, April 2011

"'We're into her music right now. She plays Autoharp and her sound has this delicate but engrossing feel. It's like you're seeing her play in a snow globe.'" -L Magazine March 2010

"Armed only with an Autoharp, she sings of the loveless and unrequited with the sweetest intonation." -Super Ace, London/UK, May 2009.

"Elizabeth Devlin croons brassy dreams over Autoharp." -TimeOUT NY, August 2009

"Elizabeth Devlin is a creative young singer from Queens, with a voice at once strong and ethereal. She accompanies herself on Autoharp, which casts her every song in shades of spooky." -TimeOUT NY, December 2008