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, “prettydroneâ€).
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 Areâ€-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
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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.
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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