New Reviews:
"A mature and fully realised work that becomes better with every listen." -- Terrascope on Lizz King's All Songs Go to Heaven
"This is an album that will delight and surprise every time it is heard." -- Terrascope on Salamander Wool's Lunarsophic Sonambulist
"Unlovely is never boring, predictable, or safe; it accepts and exploits the possibilities and potentialities of the violin is a way that’s nothing short of astonishing." -- Splice Today on Katt Hernandez's Unlovely
All three LPs are available from Ehse Records.
Showing posts with label Lizz King. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lizz King. Show all posts
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Honestly, Lizz King...
"All Songs Go To Heaven is the sound of worlds colliding. And this is a glorious sound, full of banjos and beats, heartbreaking melodies and odd noises, softly sung words and deeply stinging rhythms. It is a highly intoxicating musical trip, and one on which we are lucky enough to have King as our guide." -- visit Honest Tune to read the whole review!
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Baltimore Magazine reviews Lizz King: "Her earthy songs are, indeed, heavenly."
From the review:
Click here for the whole enchilada.
I like to think of Lizz King as Baltimore's antidote to indie phenom Sufjan Stevens. Both songwriters conjure a shambling melodicism and neither shies away from the ukelele, banjo, and glockenspiel—with the occasional singing saw in the mix—but I'll take King's dusky voice and worldview over Stevens's precious musings any day.
Click here for the whole enchilada.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Aural States reviews Lizz King's 'All Songs Go To Heaven'
Aural States posted an intensive review of Lizz's new LP. And we think they liked it...
That's a great idea: go visit Ehse Online and pick yourself up a copy.
Absolutely stunning... I can’t bestow enough praise onto All Songs Go To Heaven, and I don’t think you could do yourself a better favor this month other than to seek it out at Ehse Records.
That's a great idea: go visit Ehse Online and pick yourself up a copy.
Lizz King: Femme-Fatale Fuzz
A.V. Club Austin describes Lizz on tour:
Baltimore’s Lizz King flirts with... femme-fatale fuzz, but also wends in bluegrass-inspired torch songs from her odd combo of laptop and ukulele.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Tour Notes: Montana Digs Lizz King
"With her gritty electro-dance tune 'Booty Queen', Baltimore's Lizz King launches a sneak attack worthy of Werner Herzog. It's a catchy, spooky little number featuring the refrain 'Oo la la, she's just a baby' over samples covering the history of the Big Bad Wolf in pop culture.... She is frank, intimate and saucy like a latter-day Marlene Dietrich." - Missoula Independent
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Lizz King: Tour Winter 2010
Lizz is coming to see you. Spread the word.
Jan 12 2010 8:00P the Blue Moon Saloon Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Jan 13 2010 8:00P Death By Audio w/ GDFX, Thick Business, Kate Ferencz, & The Dreebs NYC, New York
Jan 14 2010 8:00P 17 Mules w/ Holy Sheet & Brrmuda Providence, Rhode Island
Jan 15 2010 8:00P the Butcher Shoppe w/Isa Christ, Rotten Apples, The Great Valley Boston, MA
Jan 16 2010 8:00P Skrummage w/ Breezee One Detroit, MI
Jan 18 2010 8:00P Mixtapes w/ Breezee One & ChicaX East Moline, Illinois
Jan 19 2010 1:00P www.daytrotter.com Moline, Illinois
Jan 19 2010 8:00P Cactus Club w/Big Fun4ever, Breezee One, Magic Words Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jan 21 2010 8:00P Ames Progressive Ames, Iowa
Jan 22 2010 8:00P The Picador w/ Breezee One & Datagun Iowa City, Iowa
Jan 24 2010 8:00P Rhinoceropolis Denver, CO
Jan 25 2010 8:00P Kilby Court w/ Tigergrrl & Breezee One Salt Lake City, Utah
Jan 27 2010 8:00P The Palace w/ w/ Breezee One, Colin Johnson(Vampire Hands)& Bryan Ramirez(ExCocaine) Missoula, Montana
Jan 30 2010 8:00P 6315 NE Rodney/ crosstreet Holman Portland, Oregon
Feb 1 2010 8:00P Pehrspace Kyle H. Mabson's bday slurprize w/ Breezee One & more tba Los Angeles, CA
Feb 4 2010 8:00P Club 1808 Austin, TX
Feb 5 2010 8:00P Super Happy Fun Club Houston, Texas
Feb 8 2010 8:00P tba Athens, Athens, Georgia
Feb 9 2010 8:00P The Tin Roof Charleston, South Carolina
Feb 10 2010 8:00P The Nightlight Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Feb 11 2010 8:00P Slim's Raleigh, North Carolina
Feb 16 2010 8:00P The Tipsy Teapot Greenville, North Carolina
Feb 24 2010 8:00P The Golden West Baltimore, Maryland
Jan 12 2010 8:00P the Blue Moon Saloon Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Jan 13 2010 8:00P Death By Audio w/ GDFX, Thick Business, Kate Ferencz, & The Dreebs NYC, New York
Jan 14 2010 8:00P 17 Mules w/ Holy Sheet & Brrmuda Providence, Rhode Island
Jan 15 2010 8:00P the Butcher Shoppe w/Isa Christ, Rotten Apples, The Great Valley Boston, MA
Jan 16 2010 8:00P Skrummage w/ Breezee One Detroit, MI
Jan 18 2010 8:00P Mixtapes w/ Breezee One & ChicaX East Moline, Illinois
Jan 19 2010 1:00P www.daytrotter.com Moline, Illinois
Jan 19 2010 8:00P Cactus Club w/Big Fun4ever, Breezee One, Magic Words Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jan 21 2010 8:00P Ames Progressive Ames, Iowa
Jan 22 2010 8:00P The Picador w/ Breezee One & Datagun Iowa City, Iowa
Jan 24 2010 8:00P Rhinoceropolis Denver, CO
Jan 25 2010 8:00P Kilby Court w/ Tigergrrl & Breezee One Salt Lake City, Utah
Jan 27 2010 8:00P The Palace w/ w/ Breezee One, Colin Johnson(Vampire Hands)& Bryan Ramirez(ExCocaine) Missoula, Montana
Jan 30 2010 8:00P 6315 NE Rodney/ crosstreet Holman Portland, Oregon
Feb 1 2010 8:00P Pehrspace Kyle H. Mabson's bday slurprize w/ Breezee One & more tba Los Angeles, CA
Feb 4 2010 8:00P Club 1808 Austin, TX
Feb 5 2010 8:00P Super Happy Fun Club Houston, Texas
Feb 8 2010 8:00P tba Athens, Athens, Georgia
Feb 9 2010 8:00P The Tin Roof Charleston, South Carolina
Feb 10 2010 8:00P The Nightlight Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Feb 11 2010 8:00P Slim's Raleigh, North Carolina
Feb 16 2010 8:00P The Tipsy Teapot Greenville, North Carolina
Feb 24 2010 8:00P The Golden West Baltimore, Maryland
Thursday, January 14, 2010
"Rather elaborate boots": Bmoremusic.net Photo Set of Lizz King LP Release
Bmoremusic.net has posted a great set of pics from the release party for Lizz King's new LP: "All Songs Go to Heaven".
Lizz is currently touring North America.
Lizz is currently touring North America.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Lizz King: City Paper Interview
"I'm 29, and I've been playing open mics and music in general since I was 16," she says. "And it's taken me a lot of pushing from other people to get me to be legitimate. To get me to be, like, Oh, duh, I should have a music MySpace page. OK, you're right, I should have an amplifier."
- Lizz King interviewed in City Paper, 2010
Read the whole interview here.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Lizz King: New LP/CD on Ehse Records
Lizz King: New LP/CD on Ehse Records
www.ehserecords.com
www.diymummy.com
artist: Lizz King
album: All Songs Go To Heaven
release: 2010 Ehse Records
release date: February 16th, 2010 -- a belated Valentine
Ehse Records is proud to be releasing the new LP and CD by Baltimore's favorite West Virginia transplant: Lizz King.
A crucial part of the Wham City collective, for the last few years King has been performing critically acclaimed concerts with the likes of everyone from Dan Deacon to Daniel Johnston. Her style mixes weird weird pop with big big soul, and the new album features some of the catchiest, quirkiest, and yet most sultry songwriting Baltimore has ever heard.
Lizz King will be touring the USA throughout Winter 2009 - 2010.
"The quality of music on this bill was outstanding, far and away one of the strongest I’ve seen in years. As I walked towards the Ottobar, a few minutes after Lizz King’s set time, I was hopeful that she had not come on. The place was dead silent. But as I walked through the door, I could see the reason. King was on stage and delivering a captivating performance that had the room so silent you could hear the floorboards creak. Nobody even tossed away beer bottles. This was going to be something special… Lizz King is a pixie and an angel. It’s a shame that in this day, in order to get noticed, you have to have a strong gimmick in addition to a gorgeous, timeless voice. For all the Winestones that get attention, a deserving gem like King is swept under the rug. Let’s remedy that, shall we? King’s music is some of the most barebones, heart-wide-open stuff I’ve heard… in a good and completely disarming way; she goes from banjo to ukulele to what I think was an electric tenor banjo, alternating playing some groovy, delicious computerized beats track as the musical foundation of some of her songs. Her voice is warm, like Billie Holiday and the best voices of old found on gramophone records or streaming through the vacuum-tube radios, and haunting like Fiona Apple and the other female vocal prodigies of the present. The whole picture is distinct, something I imagine sounds not unlike an electrified, breaking music box mating with the aforementioned gramophone jazz records and a healthy dose of desolate country and blues twang and instrumentation likely inspired by her time in West Virginia. She is a unique sound that is nothing short of refreshing."
- Aural States
Best of Baltimore 2007: Best Songwriter
"Wham City might be best known for giddy, hyperactive noisemakers such as Dan Deacon and the Santa Dads. But the collective's best-kept secret, Lizz King, defies her crew's prevailing aesthetic with bluesy vamps wherein she wraps her throaty voice around a single instrument, usually guitar or keyboard, and the occasional minimal drum-machine pattern. Sure, a little bit of that old Wham City absurdity lurks in song titles like 'Booty Queen' and the maniacal cackling that abruptly concludes 'Bigger Better Faster Stronger'. But the Lizz King whom we fell for is the gal who sings torch songs like 'Kissin Part' with banjo accompaniment."
- City Paper
"When the folks at Wham City, named 'Best Creative Hive' by the City Paper in 2006, were forced to stop holding shows last September, the bands who lived there-- Dan Deacon, members of Videohippos, Lizz King, Santa Dads, to name a few-- diffused only to regroup at other burgeoning fire hazards with crappy ventilation to continue to inspire the blood out of everyone around them."
- Pitchfork
"Sounds like: A haunting blend of rustic country and synthetic punk. King’s satirical lyrics linger against minimal keyboard beats and basic guitar chords.
Influences: King borrows electro-bops from her Wham City constituents, but her sultry scowl is reminiscent of R&B powerhouse Big Mama Thornton."
- Venus Zine
"In a stuffy, odd house called Lemon Hill in a crappy area of Baltimore, a girl with just her banjo sat cross-legged on the floor and sang us all to sleep with absolutely beautiful lullabies. Her voice was smooth and soulful, and I snapped her photograph with a yellow glow from the only streetlight shining outside the windows. Her name is Lizz King."
- The Walrus
www.ehserecords.com
www.diymummy.com
artist: Lizz King
album: All Songs Go To Heaven
release: 2010 Ehse Records
release date: February 16th, 2010 -- a belated Valentine
Ehse Records is proud to be releasing the new LP and CD by Baltimore's favorite West Virginia transplant: Lizz King.
A crucial part of the Wham City collective, for the last few years King has been performing critically acclaimed concerts with the likes of everyone from Dan Deacon to Daniel Johnston. Her style mixes weird weird pop with big big soul, and the new album features some of the catchiest, quirkiest, and yet most sultry songwriting Baltimore has ever heard.
Lizz King will be touring the USA throughout Winter 2009 - 2010.
"The quality of music on this bill was outstanding, far and away one of the strongest I’ve seen in years. As I walked towards the Ottobar, a few minutes after Lizz King’s set time, I was hopeful that she had not come on. The place was dead silent. But as I walked through the door, I could see the reason. King was on stage and delivering a captivating performance that had the room so silent you could hear the floorboards creak. Nobody even tossed away beer bottles. This was going to be something special… Lizz King is a pixie and an angel. It’s a shame that in this day, in order to get noticed, you have to have a strong gimmick in addition to a gorgeous, timeless voice. For all the Winestones that get attention, a deserving gem like King is swept under the rug. Let’s remedy that, shall we? King’s music is some of the most barebones, heart-wide-open stuff I’ve heard… in a good and completely disarming way; she goes from banjo to ukulele to what I think was an electric tenor banjo, alternating playing some groovy, delicious computerized beats track as the musical foundation of some of her songs. Her voice is warm, like Billie Holiday and the best voices of old found on gramophone records or streaming through the vacuum-tube radios, and haunting like Fiona Apple and the other female vocal prodigies of the present. The whole picture is distinct, something I imagine sounds not unlike an electrified, breaking music box mating with the aforementioned gramophone jazz records and a healthy dose of desolate country and blues twang and instrumentation likely inspired by her time in West Virginia. She is a unique sound that is nothing short of refreshing."
- Aural States
Best of Baltimore 2007: Best Songwriter
"Wham City might be best known for giddy, hyperactive noisemakers such as Dan Deacon and the Santa Dads. But the collective's best-kept secret, Lizz King, defies her crew's prevailing aesthetic with bluesy vamps wherein she wraps her throaty voice around a single instrument, usually guitar or keyboard, and the occasional minimal drum-machine pattern. Sure, a little bit of that old Wham City absurdity lurks in song titles like 'Booty Queen' and the maniacal cackling that abruptly concludes 'Bigger Better Faster Stronger'. But the Lizz King whom we fell for is the gal who sings torch songs like 'Kissin Part' with banjo accompaniment."
- City Paper
"When the folks at Wham City, named 'Best Creative Hive' by the City Paper in 2006, were forced to stop holding shows last September, the bands who lived there-- Dan Deacon, members of Videohippos, Lizz King, Santa Dads, to name a few-- diffused only to regroup at other burgeoning fire hazards with crappy ventilation to continue to inspire the blood out of everyone around them."
- Pitchfork
"Sounds like: A haunting blend of rustic country and synthetic punk. King’s satirical lyrics linger against minimal keyboard beats and basic guitar chords.
Influences: King borrows electro-bops from her Wham City constituents, but her sultry scowl is reminiscent of R&B powerhouse Big Mama Thornton."
- Venus Zine
"In a stuffy, odd house called Lemon Hill in a crappy area of Baltimore, a girl with just her banjo sat cross-legged on the floor and sang us all to sleep with absolutely beautiful lullabies. Her voice was smooth and soulful, and I snapped her photograph with a yellow glow from the only streetlight shining outside the windows. Her name is Lizz King."
- The Walrus
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