Album Notes

From the very first note of Star to the very last, it is obvious that Boston based Lulu's In Crisis is a band that is having anything but an emergency, just the urgency of "haven't I heard that one before" melodic nuggets that stick to the musical palate like a good meal on your first day of summer vacation.

Both individually and collectively, the four members have all garnered their experience the old-fashioned way, playing live. Since its inception in the mid 1990s, Lulu's In Crisis have played hundreds of live shows in and around greater New England, garnering a devoted legion of fans who can't get enough of Lulu's great songs and party til you drop stage shows.

Star was taken on by Producer Chris Lannan. A stalwart of the Boston music scene, Lannan has worked with a who's who of local musical legends including the J. Geils Bands Peter Wolf, Carly Simon and the late Benjamin Orr from the Cars. It's no accident that Lannan has decided to add Lulu's to his list of Rock and Roll luminaries.

Lulus in Crisis deliver the musical goods from first song to last on Star. The pure 80's power pop of Naïve merges the bouncy beat of the Kings "Switchin to Glide" with a reverential nod towards a pumped up "Pumpin for Jill" courtesy of Iggy Pop. The La's meet Morrissey on Janet. With a main chorus of "Don't tell me I'm your friend, Don't want to be your friend" backed by a Beatlesque melody, Campbell has created a saccharine ode to upbeat melancholy that can only come from the heart of a rock and roll soul.

Fashion Show has Lou Reed meeting No Doubt as a tawdry tale of a lost souls comes across like A Walk on the Wild Side of Trenchtown. 14/4 may be the 8,753,512th re-write of Dear Prudence but it's also the second or third good one!Lead Guitarist Dana Towers goes ballistic, bonkers and otherwise wacko on the riff driven Cum, Campbell's populist ode to sealin the deal. Away, confirms Campbell's love of Ian Astbury's Cult like musings on life and love.

There's more folks and it's all well worth the lousy ten bucks, invest in Lulu's crisis today!!