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06
May
2008
tags: Rails To Russia, Udachi, Dragonette, Lismore, Mp3.

Checking Back In With Our Friends From Lismore

Lismore Live!

photo by photo by s1mg.com

So you remember Lismore, yes? Maybe from one of these posts? Maybe you were even one of the 15 people in the room when they played that random art warehouse thing in Decatur last year (We were there, OBV) Well, if not, I’ll wait for you to catch up.

Still waiting…

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Well they’ve been hard at work since we last checked in with our stalwart adventures –lets see what they’ve accomplished.

First of, new tune! Continuing on their path of vocal fueled dance tracks, “More” takes it up a notch with a nice 70s funk flavour meets a happy, hands in the air, dance floor filler.


Lismore - “More”

I’m a fan.

But they didn’t stop there! They’ve been ripping out quality remixes over the course of the past few months as well as receiving a few quality remixes on their original work. Take, for example, this new Udachi remix of “Paradis”:


Lismore - “Paradis (Udachi Remix)”
LINKS: Udachi MySpace

That’s a crowd pleaser if I’d ever heard one. Here’s the original as well

Lismore - “Paradis”

But as I said, their remix work has been going strong under their pseudo-ironic name of LSMR. Here’s some of my recent favorites for your listening pleasure:


Rails To Russia - “Turning Into You (Lismore Remix)”
LINKs: Rails To Russia


HEARTS REVOLUTION - “CYOA (LISMRmix)”
LINKS: HEARTS REVOLUTION MySpace | <3s Website


Dragonette - “Jesus Doesn’t Love Me (Lismore Remix)”
LINKS: Dragonette MySpace | Other Dragonette Remixes

And, just in case that wasn’t enough, here’s another fabulous piece of Lismore’s original production work:


Lismore - “We Never Strike in One Place Twice”

They’re currently on a mini-west coast tour. So if you live out there (looking at you, former Atlanta room mate who just moved to SF) you gotta try and check them out (Tour flyer after the cut). They’ve also got a date scheduled for the 20th of this month in NYC, so check it out. I’m doing me best to make it.

Remember, be sure to check out http://www.myspace.com/lismore for tons more information, and to leave them a lovely note (and maybe annoying animated gif or 2!)

That’s it for me. Later kids!

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13
September
2007
tags: Lismore.

Lustwetrust

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.

Lismore’s official page

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03
July
2007
tags: Lismore.

We could and did connect

It’s very, very like us at Res to have a party that you probably couldn’t make it to and then not talk about it.

Suffice to say, Lismore, aka Penelope and Stephen, were/was (ah the perils of journalism…and tenses…and language…etc) were interesting and completely different than ever expected at the Wordsmiths Books in-store, where they played a handful of songs about as stripped-down as possible for a small but appreciative crowd.

Of course, Hacks’ camera didn’t follow us to the fully-charged, fully-electropop New Street Gallery set, so you essentially must take our word it happened.

Or, you could accept this little gift. A leak from the newest Lismore E.P., All That You Are

Lismore: Predicament

They haven’t moved away from the droning, gauzy stuff-they’ve just upped the full-on thrashing around ante. I think you’ll fall in love.

Pick it up, all official-like, at Lismore’s site. Because you can’t have my copy.

Oh, and happy b-day to us.

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29
June
2007
tags: Resonator Presents, Lismore.

MORE LIS. LIS. MORE.

Trixie IS right. Come celebrate Resonator’s second year of being…uh…the thing that it is (nepotistic? Bitchy? What did that guy from that PR company say once, in regards to us and our review policies-”less than forthcoming”?) tonight as two (maybe three, if R. Jamz’ll leave the damn skate rink) of your Res Friends bring it, for the first time ever, with Lismore in Atlanta.

WANT:

7pm show: Deejay Hacks opens.

9pm show: Magicicada opens.

Happy birfday to us.

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26
June
2007
tags: Resonator Presents, Lismore, Shows.

Thresholds

I’m trying to determine what is the what with the new Interpol record. I’m sure I’ll form an opinion at some point soon.

In the meantime, one more call-to-arms (or more like “call-to-kittens”)

Resonator Mag, New Street Gallery and Wordsmiths Books present Lismore, twice, this Friday, June 29th, in the dirty dirty Georgia. At 7 P.M. they’ll be playing a free acoustic in-store at Wordsmiths Books (and our own resident Deejay Hacks will be playing the deepness beforehand), and around 9ish (you know how these things go), for five bucks, you can see them plug in and let go at New Street Gallery.

This is the first-ever Resonator-sponsored show, so, yeah, we’re excited. Tired of hearing about it? Tough.

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Lismore: Cherry Bomb

Closing out their most recent E.P. (well, other than the All That You Are tour release that you can get your lovely paws on at the show before anywhere else), “Cherry Bomb” is the song to hear when you’re curious of the scope of the Lismore sound. I originally dismissed it (and a lot of the It Takes Guts… stuff) as a bit too lo-fi, a 2 A.M. sound being housed in a two-car garage at 4 in the afternoon. More recent listens, though, have proven these songs have amazing subtleties, and “Cherry Bomb”? Apparently I’d never bothered to realize it wasn’t actually two songs. Diving right into steady, driving beat, Penelope works her magic and sound wraps around sound (which is the Lismore trick, really: never leave your feet or your percussion uncovered) and, in the end, what was a poppy little dance tune claws into some rawer stuff. There’s apparently nothing Lismore can’t do.

If you’re anywhere at all, in the world, we’ll see you out Friday night for Lismore.

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23
June
2007
tags: Resonator Presents, Lismore.

The urgency of now

The first ever Resonator Presents show is coming up very, very soon…

What’s that, you say? You’ve “forgotten”? You need “help remembering”? Howabout a flyer?

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I can’t blather, praise or rave (and I’m fully aware of my word choice there) on the music Penelope and Stephen make, and at this point I’m just belaboring my own quotes-”prettydrone”, “lush and gorgeous”, “music for cats to sleep to”-all of the above and more.

Lismore: All That You Are

The first song to surface from Lismore’s new E.P., in case you missed it LAST time I posted this monster of a gauzy, fuzzy elec-done glitch-rave jam.

Lismore: 1979

It’s tacky (or at least achingly uncool) to cradle, nurture and fall madly in love with cover tunes.

(so, then, what excuses that whole Jose Gonzalez thing last year? Oh, I digress…)

I shirk any and all cool points, then, when I say that this song, a cover of the Smashing Pumpkins’ Melancholy alt-classic, gets as much play in my iTunes as any Lismore original. They know the song inside and out, and Penelope’s voice brings out an ache and a longing that got avalanched over by the Corgan whine.

So, if you’re anywhere at all, you have no excuse to miss this Friday, the 29th. 7 P.M. acoustic at Wordsmiths Books (free), 9 P.M. electric at New Street Gallery (a fiver for cover). It’s worth noting that our own Deejay Hacks will be playing for a bit at Wordsmiths to get you in the proper, chilled and spaced frame of mind.

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23
May
2007
tags: Resonator Presents, Lismore.

We could (and will) connect

One of my favorite, slow-burning, wraps-around-your-subconscious-‘til-invading-your-daily-life bands of the past few years is Lismore. During our livejournal days, I wrote a quick missive on the Jersey City electro-glitch-drone-pop group (I believe I called them, and henceforth became quoted using this label, “prettydrone”).

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As with all good things, Lismore bears repeating. Earlier this year, they released their home-made “It Takes Guts To Deceive So Eloquently” e.p., which indulged a bit more of their lo-fi indie rock sensibilities than had previously been shown on their lush-‘n-lovely debut album We Could Connect Or We Could Not. Now, they’re about to mid-point 2007 with another e.p., “All That You Are”-the title track from which is available, to quote that classical, lyrical poetic genius Norman “Fatboy Slim” Cook, right here right now:

Lismore: All That You Are

If this is the direction Lismore’s going with their newest bunch of songs, I’m floored-they’ve always had a harbinger of full-on big-room 4/4 sensibility, but it’s more-oft-than-not controlled, moderated, by a desire to wrap their lusciously thick bass beats in a gauzy blanket of fuzz. This time around the fuzz is there, but rather than determining where the song goes it simply provides an undercurrent to the full-out frentic cut-and-splice dancey goodness. It all comes together with Penelope’s crystallized vocals to create something not unlike early-90’s WARP and today’s Monika Records throwing a party together. Prettydrone? Maybe last record-this is Prettyrave.

If there’s anyone that’s in love with the PrettyRave, it’s us here at Resonator Mag. That’s why, in conjunction with our friends at Wordsmiths Books and New Street Gallery, we’re proud to present the first-ever Resonator Sponsored show- two very, very special and awesome performances by Lismore, in Atlanta, GA, on June 29th.

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At 7pm, they’ll be doing a acoustic-and-literary themed in-store at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur-and, later on in the evening, just a short hop, skip, jump down the road, they’ll be doing a full-on wrapped-in-’lectronics show at New Street Gallery.

More information will, obviously, be available as it comes together-but for the love of good music, you don’t want to miss this.

Lismore online.

Be Lismore’s VIRB friend-not only is it better than myspace, it’s prettier. and not corporate. think globally, social network non-murdoch-ially.

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