Germano, Lisa / Magic Neighbor

Young God

Following the release of Lisa Germano's last album for Young God Records, In the Maybe World, and a good deal of subsequent touring, she hid herself away for a long while, and I was beginning to despair--then suddenly this beautiful music started coming my way. I think this is one of her best albums yet. "Snow" is a jewel, ripe with her typical naked emotion--a gentle elegy, exuding warmth and healing. The depth of feeling in her words and singing on this album is truly remarkable, and she never fails to tug at my heart. Somehow it's sad, wistful, and hopeful, all at once. It's very private, solitary music. It's deeply engaging, and when I listen to it I often stop what I'm doing and drift off with it into its world. Time and troubles disappear for a short while. For some reason, her music reminds me of early Disney songs--fuzzy and dreamy. Thinking about it today, I also thought of the great--and neglected--music that Tom Waits did with Crystal Gayle for the movie One from the Heart. In any event, she's resolutely in her own space, and within that space she sculpts songs and miniature, delicate sonic environments like no one else. To sit down and spend some time inside her songs is a tremendously rewarding experience, and I hope you'll partake. --Michael Gira / Young God "She can unearth the darkness in the most innocuous scenes, as well as allow light to shine into the bleakest of corners, and does so while expertly straddling the line between poignant and absurd." --Pitchfork  "The exquisite singer / songwriter Lisa Germano often walks that miraculously fine line between breathtaking terror and intoxicating beauty. Chilling, seductive, and sorrowful, but dressed up like a lovely lullaby to mask the tragic core." --Dream Magazine  "Listening to Lisa Germano's music is a painfully intimate experience, as if a teenage girl were revealing her cutting scars in a cafeteria corner ... achingly vulnerable and bristling with passive-aggressive anger." --New York Times

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