Lizette

I’ve mentioned the band Lizette& before (here and here). When I got up this morning, I found a comment from their drummer, Alex, letting me know that their album is (finally) now available for order through their website! I’ve been waiting for this one for a while.

iTunes: “Must I” by Lizette& from the album & So… (2001, 3:27).

Lizette&, an excellent band from Sweden whom I’ve mentioned in the past, has finally finished their debut album! The release party is scheduled for December 2nd. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend — a small matter of me being in Seattle, and the party being in Stockholm, Sweden — but I’ve been looking forward to this album for a while, and will be snagging a copy as soon as it’s available to be ordered.

They’re an alternative/industrial band that I discovered a few years back via the Internet, somewhere along the lines of the Kidney Thieves (who opened for KMFDM on their last tour). Well worth checking out, I’d say, and you can get a few samples of their sound from their MP3.com page.

A while back, while digging through my friend Kory’s mp3.com page, I stumbled across a remix he did of a song called “Breathe,” by an artist going by Lizette&. I downloaded his mix and liked it a lot. Curious by that point, I decided to see if I could track down the original version to see what Kory had started with.

So, I downloaded the original version, and was very pleasantly surprised to discover how good it was. Even more curious now, I bounced over to Lizette&’s page, downloaded everything I could find, and was blown away by her music. Excellent stuff — one other person described her as a cross somewhere between Tori Amos and nine inch nails, and that’s not really far off at all (think Tori-ish vocals over nin-ish music), though I’m not sure that that description quite does her justice, as she stands quite well on her own.

Having gone into mild obsession mode (you know, the safe kind, where you’ve just discovered something cool and want to find out as much as you can — not the freaky scary mode where you stalk someone for months and end up getting carted off to the funny farm with the nice young men in their clean white coats and they’re coming to take me away, hee hee, ha ha…anyway…[ahem]), I then found my way over to her website, where I found out that she hails from Sweden, and got her start as a studio singer and writer, at one point contributing both her vocal and writing talents to one of my guilty-pleasure groups, the Rednex (of the country-techno song “Cotton-Eye Joe”). Now she’s got her own studio and is working on putting together her first full studio album, which I’m definitely looking forward to hearing.

Anyway, very cool stuff. Go. Listen. Enjoy.