Band Facts Genre:
Indie Singer/Songwriter
Members:
Danny Malone
Website:
www.DannyMalone.com
Contact:
Wayne@TownshipRecords.net
“Baby Bleu”
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DANNY MALONE
The music of Danny Malone searches its way through the ranch-style homes, strip malls, and landfills of the suburban utopia of safety. With a voice that pinches intimacy together with sardonic distance, Malone’s music has a lilting vitality of youth that wants to find the genuine while knowing there is no such thing. When he performs live he’s engaged, dynamic, talking di-
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rectly to the audience, jumping up on bars, and gets the crowd moving with his dancing. He draws the audience in with his charisma, that like his lyrics, are self-aware in their unawareness. The video for Danny’s “Baby Bleu,” released with the EP of the same name. Malone is playing on the streets of downtown Austin and at the dog run in Zilker Park. He is a baby faced skinny kid with an acoustic guitar that looks two-sizes too big. But he has a voice that climbs over the top of the spare chords that pierces and draws you in with its intimacy. Malone’s voice aged a bit by the time he released his second album. Maybe it was the cigarettes, the long nights filled with whiskey, or maybe it was the traveling life. But while his first album, Cuddlebug, has the same sweet voice full of emotion, the pain of heartbreak has been turned up a bit, with a sting, a bitterness, and an abrasiveness of an artist who opens himself up and lets the music run through him. “Borrowing the songs for a while,” as Danny told us. Listening to the album from beginning to end, you will hear songs such as “Secrets You Know,” in which Malone “trades secrets for scars.” Through the lament of honesty in “Song of the Year,” you can picture the slim, red head making a break for it. His music is the key to escaping the hope denied by familial dysfunction and the sterility of back-to-back suburban sprawl. And like thousands before him, after going down a road or two, Danny picked up a guitar and found a place for his energy, intelligence, and creativity. The split record he did with James Levy has such a stark contrast in styles that it is able to highlight Malone’s sound. While Levy’s vocals chug and burn with righteousness, Malone’s songs sound all the more like heartache ballads with undeniable hooks. Malone’s music echoes with the suburban scenes of love, while covering the life of the down, outcast, and alienated. It is like the negligee of the first person you ever loved and can’t completely forget. ATXMusicMag.com / Sep 2011 /
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