What The People Say
Delicious, Jazzy and Fresh!
Bay Area-based Diggsville has created one of the hippest, grooviest records I have heard in a long time. With solid drums keeping the flow in the rear, we get layers of loungey piano, sax and sexy, sexy female vocals. Rarely does one hear such a s eamless infusion of electronica and jazz-infused funk. They sustain an awesome level of chill, and they don’t skimp on the protions either - there isn’t a jam on this record less than 5 minutes. Lovin’ it.
-Don Pflaster of Impact Press Magazine
Catch the Flavor Immediately
Oh these are songs from somewhere alright. Somewhere deep inside where the groove is resting in our veins waiting to be pumped out and encouraged. Electronica, jazz, and trip-hop mashed up righteously on Diggsville’s “songs from Nowhere” which feature female vocals blending the influence of Portishead and Delerium into one beautiful collage. Hip bands like this that are just mere steps aware from smooth jazz are a rare treat.
-J-Sin SmotherNet Magazine
Dreamtempo quintet Diggsville conjures up vibey, sex-ductive chill beats reminiscent of Brit trip-hoppers the Sneaker Pimps
-San Jose Mercury News
Sexy, Spooky, Seductive and Sinful!
This is without question, the sexiest, spookiest, most seductively sinful disc of the decade. I honestly cannot stop playing it. Jazzy, funky, danceable, almost edible beats…And that voice! America’s undiscovered auditory treasure. The songs themselves: atmospheric, almost cinematic, they take you far, far away…Fantastic musicianship and superb production. If these are ‘songs from nowhere’ please Lord, send me there!
-Steven Schub of The Fenwicks & Haskala
Completely draws you in with a sound that haunts your head! This is a band you tell your friends to come out and see to believe….Karen’s vocals and stage presence up front are completely captivation; while the strident combination of bass and drums effectively drives a smooth and tantalizing groove right through your brain cells.
-Michael Hollingshead of Satellite Sky
One of the most sexy and evocative CDs to be produced in years. Diggsville’s “Songs from Nowhere” takes me where I want to go.
-Erica Jordan of Jordan Films & Pivotal Eye
Diggsville is highly original. Beautiful packaging and excellent production.
-Margaret Pitcher of Electricwomb.com
Lyrics
All lyrics copyrighted by Karen Mitchell
Daze of Normal Life
You smoking this and drinking that.
Your outlooks hopeless.
Hoping that you wont fall flat.
You dont want to think,
Dont want to feel.
Hoping that the numbness will make it real.
You- youre dreaming of this.
You you always smoking this,
drinking that, shooting this and flipping the phat.
Living life like a warzone navigation;
Searching the city streets for comfort and salvation.
Ride the highs and crashes,
Smoke your dreams to ashes.
Beneath the wounds and gashes
mid-day scenes, back flashes.
Well, I dont want to hear it.
No, I dont want to know
your bitter consultation.
Theres nothing going on.
Youre living with the pain of doing and not forgiving.
Youve got to forgive.
Youve got to forgive yourself.
Ride the highs and crashes,
Smoke your dreams to ashes.
Beneath the wounds and gashes
mid-day scenes, back flashes.
Behind closed doors she’s pulling two black pins from her eyes.
Behind closed doors he’s tearing at the seams between the words and the lies.
They can’t believe the things they’ve seen,
the cruelty and the callousness that shadows this life.
Behind closed doors they’re digging up and pulling out their final lines,
a lasting disguise.
Behind closed doors.
Behind closed doors the whispering and wandering,
the buzzing ghosts still traveling beneath her skin.
The blood that burns, the dreams that turn,
the willingness to move along and never give in.
Behind closed doors they’re digging up and pulling out their final lines,
a lasting disguise.
The great escape is keeping faith in a world of waste and emptiness and compromise. Behind closed doors.
Behind closed doors.
Behind closed doors.
Ooo yeah – they try and they try.
Ooo yeah – they try
and they try.
And they try, they try, they try.