At Great Scott the lights shine on Jessica Sun Lee. On an otherwise dimly-lit stage, The Sun Lee Sunbeam’s frontwoman led her band through a hard-driving set. Moving in and out of the shadows around her, bassist Mary Flatley and drummer Jeff Clarke drove the band forward while guitarist Mike Ward painted texture and ambiance into the spaces between the choppy rhythmic strokes of Sun Lee’s rhythm guitar.
The track "Sitting In An Open Cage" from the band’s second album "Beneath the Burning Sky" proved to be the standout song of their set. With a distorted almost-ska-like guitar riff propelled by Clarke’s rapid hi-hat work, the verse dances between lightness and heaviness before launching into a powerful chorus with Sun Lee singing out "Sitting in an open cage / too afraid to be free."
Enjoy a Foundwaves live video premiere of the song below (courtesy Extraneous Noise) and don’t miss The Sun Lee Sunbeam at their next local show on Saturday, February 20th, 2010 at the Armory Cafe in Somerville with Big Hurry.
Stay tuned for an upcoming post about the same show featuring another live video premiere and review of the powerful trio Reverse…