Rock 'n' Roll 'n' Blues Women!

Their latest album, Grey Oceans, was released this May. It manages to keep the strange experimental sounds such as those from noisemakers and child's toys yet sounds much more polished than previous albums. Bianca told us that the overarching theme of their live shows this tour is "bedtime, bedroom, lovespells, dreams and past lives."

A recent live performance in New Orleans was nothing short of jaw-dropping. They performed with their favorite New Orleans trans musician, Sissy Nobby, of whom Bianca says, "We love him right now."

I was actually shocked to see that they didn't use any type of vocal effects; that's just what they sound like. Sierra's professional opera training is evident; her voice is crystal clear and almost dream-like and Bianca's high pitched gangster squeal was legit. Both girls performed in haunting, mystical costumes, much like those worn in their latest video, "Lemonade," which is amazingly beautiful and very fairy-tale-esque.MORE

The story of how Sierra and Bianca Casady formed CocoRosie is on its way toward legend. Two American sisters, half-Cherokee, and not close during their nomadic childhood, are reunited as adults in Paris and, just for fun, record the ground-breaking and eerily beautiful La Maison de mon Reve in their bathtub. The CD finds its way into the hands of powers that be at Touch and Go and suddenly they have a record deal. Sierra abandons her Parisian opera studies and they move to Brooklyn where they mingle with the likes of Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons) and Devendra Banhart. Much touring ensues with positive reviews and comparisons to everyone from Billie Holliday to Portishead.

With their second CD due early next month, Junkmedia spoke with Sierra about the changes that have taken place in their lives in the past 18 months.

Brooklyn seems like the red-hot center of a lot of interesting new music with you, Devendra, Antony, TV on the Radio, etc. What's it like to be in the middle of that?

There's two sides that we see to this subject. One is we just kind of hide away and do our own thing and don't feel necessarily connected to a scene. And then on the other hand there is something special, some kind of collective consciousness that seems to be uprising right now. I think there are several artists in New York that do feel really connected and for us that's Antony, and a few other artists like Diane Cluck. She's a really special folk musician. It's kind of a small little family circle, but there is something. I can't explain it.

Given that you never intended your first album to be heard by anyone other than friends, were you nervous about writing the second album, knowing it would be heard or wondering how it would be received? MORE