Lisa Germano - Lullaby For Liquid Pig
ARTIST.....: Lisa Germano
TITLE......: Lullaby For Liquid Pig
LABEL......: Young God Records
URL........: http://www.lisagermano.com
RIP DATE...: May-26-2008
STORE DATE.: Jun-26-2007
GENRE......: Indie
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 94,4 MB
Track Listing:
CD1
01 - Nobody's Playing 03:10
02 - Paper Doll 03:02
03 - Liquid Pig 03:03
04 - Pearls 03:24
05 - Candy 02:36
06 - Dream Glasses Off 03:28
07 - From A Shell 02:59
08 - It's Party Time 02:40
09 - All The Pretty Lies 03:08
10 - Lullaby For Liquid Pig 03:09
11 - Into The Night 04:03
12 - ....To Dream 01:55
CD2
01 - It's A Rainbow (Home Recording) 03:40
02 - Way Below The Radio/Guillotine/Moon 14:12
Palace/Woodfloors/Pearls (Live From Lisbon)
03 - My Imaginary Friend (Home Recording) 02:33
04 - Flower Steps/From A Shell/Turning Into 06:33
Betty (Live From Largo Club)
05 - Candy (Home Recording) 02:49
06 - Liquid Pig (Home Recording) 01:35
07 - In The Land Of Fairies/In The Maybe World 09:35
/Golden Cities (Live From Lisbon)
08 - Wire/Red Thread (Live From Largo Club) 05:39
09 - Dream Glasses Off (Home Recording) 03:20
10 - It's Party Time (Live From Lisbon) 03:18
11 - Making Promises (Home Recording) 02:47
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cd1: 36:37 cd2: 56:01
Release Notes:
http://www.younggodrecords.com
" A quietly difficult, challenging meditation on the personal
detritus that accumulates around addiction, Lisa Germano's Lullaby
for Liquid Pig is a twelve-song cycle of diaphanous, hazy strands
of sound, interwoven with her weary, smoke-hewn vocals and sadly
gorgeous melodies. Although albums of this dark sort rarely rocket
into the sunny stratosphere of pop's charts, they do manage to
burrow into its culture -- just follow the harrowing, epochal
through line that binds Tonight's the Night to In Utero. Upon its
initial release in 2003, Lullaby for Liquid Pig failed to imbed
itself as indelibly into the charts as it did the ears of those
lucky enough to hear it before it flat-lined into out-of-print
oblivion.
Luckily for listeners and the album, Lullaby For Liquid Pig has
been resurrected by Young God, replete with a bonus disc of
rarities and live cuts for added depth and context. Yet it's the
album proper that remains so bleakly radiant -- from the piano-
looped, painkiller haze of "Nobody's Playing" to the plaintive,
heartbreaking slow burn of "Pearls" ("hate will grow into blossoms
of no/ take you lower than low/ hate will grow with your alcohol
glow") that ascends (or descends, if you like) into a shimmering
crescendo of lyric resignation and aural swaths of wraithlike
beauty. Though the shoegazing is buoyed by the up-tempo gloom of
"Candy" and hopeful lyrics of "To Dream," Germano's Lullaby for
Liquid Pig remains a haunting twelve-step into the depths of human
need. The album's success -- and redemption -- lies in the beauty
of the lullabies it finds there."
Travis Woods | Prefixmag.com
"...delves into those bleak hours before the sun comes up, with
raw emotion that's calculated to disturb. Stark, gorgeous songs
weave a spell of deep-seated loneliness coupled with unceasing
introspection; the album is a gut punch from the first hanging,
ethereal note." - Salon.com
"Lullaby for Liquid Pig is deceptively potent; in just thirty
minutes it divines your most closely held memories, guiding you
farther farther back with endless, heartbreaking choruses..."
Pitchforkmedia.com
"Lisa Germano pushes confessional intimacy to unsettling extremes
...Unashamed candor often spells dreary self-indulgence. In
Germano's insightful hands, it's fascinating and strangely
exhilarating." - Blender
Nobody makes records like Lisa Germano. This music seeps into your
system with a warm glow like alcohol gently working its way into
the bloodstream through the lining of an empty stomach. From the
first moment you're drifting weightless through Lisa's gossamer
world, where everything's infused with a woozy, fairy tail
melancholy, and maybe just a hint of the sour taste of last
night's wine. Liquid Pig is particularly beautifully and richly
orchestrated, but also so intimate and saturated with a peculiar
sadness (that can suddenly shift to joy or whimsy) you get the
feeling you're drifting through the dreams inside her head, led
along by the soft breeze of her breathing. Lisa says that if you
removed the breath from her voice there'd be nothing there. That
particular quality is perhaps what draws you in. It really is the
sound of a lover whispering a song or a secret in your ear. These
songs are intimate, even "confessional," but they're certainly not
limited to the personal. Seems to me, any human being with a sense
of their own frailty ought to find a place for themselves in this
beautiful and seductive music.
This album was first released in 2003 but the label that released
it disappeared very soon thereafter, and it sadly went out of
print. It's my extreme pleasure to make it available now and I
hope that this time it reaches the audience it deserves. -
Michael Gira / Young God Records