From The Mouth Of Babes

On Wednesday, I went to the Cameron House for the last show of Moscow Apartment's March residency. It was a packed crowd, and given the youthfulness of both bands, full of teenagers. The opener was Fintan, a brother duo from Victoria. This 20-something outfit played emotional boy pop. That is, they write mostly variations of the love song with a little more depth than what's currently playing on the radio. Their covers of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah (joined by a sister just off a plane from New Brunswick) and Bahamas' Lost In The Light illustrated the gap in their experience. But there was promise in their set.

Headliner Moscow Apartment is teen duo Pascale and Brighid, who haven't even finished high school. But from the first song Be You ("maybe I'm confused/I won't let myself be used by you"), there's a wonderful maturity to their song-craft. They also sang about topics including body image on Annie ("Get your hands off my body/Annie") and friendship on Half-way. Even their love songs were inspired, such as Francis and Isobel being actually an ode to a house plant. It was no surprise that new song Two-timer will be recorded in Nashville. Along with a $100K prize they recently won, the world is about to discover the preternatural talents of Moscow Apartment.