Lisa Savidge Music

UPDATE: Lisa Savidge/Lisa Savidge is now available online and in select stores. The album is being distributed through Super D, so your local indie should be able to order it if it's not in stock.

Radio stations from western Alaska to eastern Maine began adding the album to rotation last week, and many more have been in touch about getting some spins going as well, so keep your ears posted!

If you're in the Phoenix area, we'll be commemorating the release of the new record at The Rhythm Room downtown on Feb. 17th. Meanwhile, April will have us touring from San Diego to Montreal, so if you're along that route, jump on our Facebook/Twitter/blog to stay posted on tour dates.

"Lisa Savidge" is the second LP from Phoenix-based band Lisa Savidge. As for what it sounds like, we'll let the legendary Jack Rabid (founder and editor-in-chief of the world's longest running underground music zine, The Big Takeover) do the honors:

"Phoenix five-some Lisa Savidge (there is no Lisa) are a “shoegaze/dreampop” group according to their bio, but they’re not so simply (self) pegged on this eponymous sophomore submission. They do dig the genre’s dense guitar majesty, offering intermittent, beautifully breathtaking, mountain-peak clusters of cascading cacophony—but those are mere passages. They’re as prone to temperamental soundtrack stillness, chilling post-rock, classical-inspired buildups, and even lots of harsher-faster-heavier post-punk loud-bomb rockers, ala Echo & Bunnymen, Pixies, and early Easterhouse. The closing, seven-minute, looming monster “Appalachacha (Pts 1&2)” is just a mega-capper for the erupting explosions that surface, volcano-like, throughout the LP out of both librarian hush and clashing, distorto power-noise. Finally, singer Dan Somers tacks on modestly soulful-to-agitated, throaty vocals to each clear-to-cloudy-to-cranky composition, insuring that even the wall of soundscape stuff is molded into songcraft—on this challenging, fascinating, unpredictable-turns work."

The backstory:

Lisa Savidge was originally founded by Dan Somers: Having gone somewhat mad during brief but illustrious career doing Very Bad Things as an intelligence operative for the government, he decided to turn his efforts toward good instead of evil. Toward this end, he assembled a band of merry musical miscreants - a violinist on guitar, a classical percussionist on drums, an electronics wizard on keyboards, and a technical guitarist on bass.