Has recently placed songs in "All My Children", "Dawson's Creek, Season 3 DVD," and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." For longtime observers of Molly Bancroft's flirtation with folk and rock and everything in between, it shouldn't come as any great surprise that her solo debut, Get Closer, corresponds to sonic profiles exhibited amongst her musical female peer group. ..the electronic burble of Beth Orton ("Dance Song"), ...the soaring anthemics of Sarah McLachlan ("Run Away") alternately poke their heads into the frame, as the former Lift frontwoman moves from one genre to the next with suprising grace. ..Bancroft's... material retains a cohesive sound by virtue of muscular songwriting; fiercely confessional in lyric, bedrock solid in composition and arrangement.... With stunning clarity, Bancroft distills all she's heard and known over her decade-long career into Get Closer's strikingly singular presentation. - Paste Magazine

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PASTE MAGAZINE April/May 2004

MOLLY BANCROFT Get Closer (reyban) * * * *

For longtime observers of Molly Bancroft's flirtation with folk and rock and everything in between, it shouldn't come as any great surprise that her solo debut, Get Closer, corresponds to sonic profiles exhibited amongst her musical female peer group. The reverent piano of Tori Amos ("Get Closer"), the electronic burble of Beth Orton ("Dance Song"), the folk-pop bruise of Suzanne Vega ("Funky Little Mouth") and the soaring anthemics of Sarah McLachlan ("Run Away") alternately poke their heads into the frame, as the former Lift frontwoman moves from one genre to the next with suprising grace. = Even with Bancroft's minor stylistic shifts between songs, her material retains a cohesive = sound by virtue of muscular songwriting; fiercely confessional in lyric, bedrock solid in composition and arrangement, offering many of the best elements of contemporaries like Jonatha Brooke and John Gorka. With s

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Bio

Molly Bancroft started her career in playing jazz saxophone in Traverse City, Michigan. After many years of being a jazz geek, she started writing songs on piano and guitar and decided to test out her songwriting and singing in Boston's thriving folk and rock scene in the early 1990s. She released a 7" single "Walk Away" (Tim Kerr Records) gaining Molly her first national airplay.

Molly then headed South to the warm organic music scene in Atlanta, Georgia. Never having been in the South, Molly found herself quickly at home, and within a month she her formed a new band, got into the studio and soon completed Lift's first album "Stellar."

Lift resulted in three critically praised albums; "Stellar", "Lifelike" and "September EP". Touring nationally, Lift shared the stage with artists' such as Indigo Girls, Guadalcanal Diary, and the Wild Colonials. During this end of Lift's touring and recording, Molly's influences began to shift. She was listening to Outkast, Meshell, dance groups like Chicane, Underworld, and the alternative rock genre had gotten stale to her ears. She returned to her jazz roots and started experimenting with grooves and textures in her own songwriting, finding inspiration from disparate musical genres.

In 2002 she wrote and produced a new album "Get Closer" in which most of the songs were licensed to TV shows, film as well as gaining radio airplay on 99x in Atlanta.

Molly is now recording a new set of songs, writing for other pop groups, and producing, as well as collaborating on a project with well-known electronic act Gabriel and Dresden.