Single Review: "I Don't Wanna Know" from the Render Sisters

Artist:  Render Sisters
Label:  PCG Artist Development / Distro Kid
Websites:  www.rendersisters.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxC6zNnv_JpPNCn1at7phTQ

Making their debut in the country pop arena, the Render Sisters comprised of Mary Keaton Render and Stella Render play contemporary prairieland Americana with a pinch of coffeehouse folk and torchlight blues that shares qualities with supper club jazz.  Since their emergence in 2020, the sisters have been churning out singles and broadening their acumen at each outing.

Their 2021 single "I Don't Wanna Know," an original melody written by the sisters and their producer Doug Kahan (Trick Pony, Clay Walker, Jon Pardi), brings out the clarion luster in the sisters vocal harmonies, supported by the shimmering tones and twittering vibrations of the guitar chords and keyboards.  The lyrics speak of seeking a simple life and accepting conditions as they are, as the sisters chime, "I don't wanna know / I just want to let things happen / it isn't fair to care if I can't change it / and even if you go, and this love's not everlasting / laugh or cry, I wouldn't try to rearrange it / I don't wanna know"  

Keeping in stride with the lyrical theme of seeking a simple life, the duo's single "Small Spaces," released in 2020, projects a similar bliss as the sisters narrate, "He married Mary in a little church / in a poor house they settled down / nine months later came a little boy / then a couple of years a little girl came around... and she said small spaces holds everything I want / and everything I need / no matter the changes / it will always be enough / 'cause what I love is in these small spaces."  The folksy pop trimmings of the track enhance the storytelling versing, sharing a common thread with the bluesy tendrils of jazz.

Other singles released by the Render Sisters include the toe tapping, hootenanny style romper "Black Roses," brandishing a vaunting tambourine beat, and the bluesy torchlight glint illuminating "Little Dreamer," harnessed in a smooth gliding strut as the sisters's vocal nuances are accentuated by the pulsating rhythmic meter.  The guitar ballad "I Can't Help It" bolsters a soft quake seamed into the prairieland folk atmospherics that engulfs the audience in an intimate setting.

Harking from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the Render Sisters produce an intimacy with their audiences liken to coffeehouse buskers and cabaret singers.  Inspired by their grandmother, a music teacher, to write their own songs, the Render Sisters are carving out a niche for themselves within the framework of Americana roots music.