Resonator Mag favorites Lismore have, in recent times and with recent releases, made it evident that, for the time being, they’re gonna turn their faces away from the light, hazy drone of their earlier stuff and focus on, well, fuzzing the hell out of electropop with their guitars and their shiny, glittered-belt bouyance.
Cuter than their au currant idols in the French hairchin army over at Ed Banger, as well as infinitely more concerned with a slick sheen that belies their earlier loop-’til-bliss methods, the last two EPs (and the accompanying tour that brought them, in both an acoustic and a fully-wired capacity, to Atlanta for the first time) have found them smirking and shimmying, like what’d happen if you suddenly found two fuzzy koalas that had formerly been gauzy unicorns making electro in your garage with nothing but a few hard-wired FX pedals, a laptop and a love of melody.
This morning, Lismore gave a treat to the world: the most amazing part of their recent “All That You Are” show (other than the live rendition of “Cherry Bomb”), was the stomping fun-stormer of “We Never Strike In One Place Twice”-which was, until about an hour ago, only available to those able to pilfer from Stephen and Penelope’s iTunes.
Lismore: We Never Strike In One Place Twice
I fear that this song’s pervasive and titular theme doesn’t bode well for an Atlanta return for the duo, but when they keep on turning out amazing stuff like this-superdiscopunktro with that amazing Lismore shine to it-there should be a clamoring to see ‘em again. Seriously-every direction they go, be it the original prettydrone, the more lo-fi kids-with-dusty-records-and-dustier-guitars from the It Takes Guts E.P., or their new flat-out raverock, I have yet to not be floored to ecstasy from their stuff.
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