New Kerrigan and Lowdermilk CD

I'm getting very impatient to get my hands on the Kerrigan and Lowdermilk CD. Has anyone here heard it yet?

I found the Vienna Teng version of Say the Word that someone put online on Wednesday - and it's great! - but I am very eager to hear more

Thanks, HummingAlong! That sounds very exciting.

I hope that mine turns up in the mail in the next few days.

I have heard good things about this team and would like to give them a shot, but I have a short attention span when listening to demos and recordings of a singer and a piano. So if I were to go to their website and listen to something, what song or songs would be my best introduction to their work?

Their big thing, it seems to me, is blending pop music with more traditional musical theatre music.

For a sound that leans more toward mainstream, try Vienna Teng's take on Say The Word. To me, this is like Sarah McLaughlin meets Taylor Swift. Sounds like a weird combo, but works beautifully in my opinion. Although in this incarnation, it's not something I could imagine in a theatre, only in a cabaret venue. But if you listen to the same cut with Meghann Fahy on the Sam Brown Demo, you'll probably be able to see how it works for MT as well.

For a more musical-theatre-y sound, try Michael Arden's cut, Run Away With Me. It practically stages itself, I think.

For what I think is the perfect blend of pop and musical theatre, listen to Katie Thompson's Five and a Half Minutes. The sound is just new enough, but I could still totally see this in a theatre.

It's on their new CD "Our First Mistake." It's the first cut.

I can't wait for this. It'll be great to finally have a studio version of Matt Doyle singing "Last Week's Alcohol".

Anyone who backed their project and lives outside of the U.S got their CD by any chance?

I'm dying to get mine...

You should be able to order the CD through Sh-K-Boom: http://www.sh-k-boom.com/ourfirstmistake.shtml. As an introduction, I would definitely check out "Two Strangers," sung on the CD by Morgan Karr, Matt Doyle, and Jay A. Johnson. I feel like they fuse pop and musical theatre in such a sophisticated way and that song is such a cool example. At their "Under the Influence" concert, they talked about how it was influenced by Imogen Heap, and when you hear what they do with sound and the different voices, it's really powerful stuff.

If you like Vienna Teng, there's also a great video of her and Kait Kerrigan singing "My Heart is Split": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NaFcmu0KiI

I backed it and I'm in England; it got here today! Hope yours arrives soon :)

Updated On: 1/18/11 at 11:09 AM

I backed it and haven't gotten it either but I had to cave and buy "Five and a Half Minutes". BRILLIANT song but also BRILLIANTLY recorded by the amazing Katie Thompson <3 love it and can't wait to listen to the rest!

Did anyone who received their CD also receive their backer reward?? I'm about to offer my help...it's been what, 5 months?!