Select Vacancy (Special Edition)
Lisa Maxwell
© Copyright-Essential Music Australia, Bent Records
(634479558658)
Record Label: Essential Music Australia
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1. Select Vacancy |
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2. Anna |
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3. I Know |
2:40 |
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4. Waste Of A Life |
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5. Delusion |
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6. Secrets And Lies |
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7. Not So Easy |
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8. Never Coming Back Here Again |
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9. Harmonic Rock |
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10. Same Story |
3:20 |
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11. Out Of Sight |
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12. Bad Day |
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13. Delusion (2005 Version) |
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14. Ego |
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15. Harmonic Rock (2005 Version) |
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16. Whatever You Say |
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A concoction of noise, aggression, rock, humour, “gruff anthems”, upbeat music, downbeat music, true stories and total fabrications: rock songwriter/musician Lisa Maxwell’s debut longplayer, Select Vacancy.
Produced by Jamie Durrant and Lisa Maxwell, the album’s title track and opener is packed with energy and intense melancholy. Rampant guitars are fronted by Lisa's vitriolic snarl on Anna (voted number one Most Wanted video on eaTV, July 2007), while the ferocious I Know slithers its way into stoner rock territory.
But it’s not just about being loud: dulcimer, Wurlitzer piano and 'fly spray can' slide on Not So Easy, subsonic bass and a hint of synth on Out Of Sight, slide guitar on Same Story and 80's-inspired keyboards and electronic rhythmic sounds courtesy of a collaboration with producer Chris Gates on Waste Of A Life, all add texture to the final mix. Even pieces of Lisa's original demos, recorded herself on her laptop computer with a $10 microphone, find their place.
This special edition release of Select Vacancy includes Lisa’s 2005 debut EP, Bad Day. Tracks from the EP and new album have received national airplay in Australia, and have scored attention and airplay in the UK, Japan, USA, and Canada.
Hear for yourself: we recommend playing this one loud. Enjoy it.
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Rock yeah!
author: Border Mail
On her first full-length album release, Benalla's Lisa Maxwell wants us to know one thing.
She ROCKS!
And not in the watered-down, radio-loves-this sense either.
Nope, Maxwell rocks out in the old-fashioned sense - walls of guitars playing host to a disturbingly powerful set of lungs.
And while many would have first laid ears on Lisa with her 2005 Bad Day EP, truth is that Select Vacancy shows incredible growth owed obviously to hard work and extended experience in the live arena.
Two tunes from Bad Day appear on the new album with the catchy Delusion again among the highlights as is the gruff anthem, Anna.
All-round supremo Jamie Durrant again teams with Maxwell to create a superbly damaged musical soundscape and the duo really excels on tunes such as the quirky and thoughtful standout Not So Easy and the retro-rock inspired Waste Of A Life.
Turn it up!
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