9/23/2009 - Lisa Germano - Magic neighbor - available now
'Lisa Germano pushes confessional intimacy to unsettling extremes …Unashamed candor often spells dreary self-indulgence. In Germano's insightful hands, it's fascinating and strangely exhilarating.' - Blender
10/27/2009 - larkin grimm/parplar review foxydigitalis.com / B. Miles and Zac Keller
Grimm has a wonderful voice and holds her own. But something inside me wants to just hear her and a guitar.
10/20/2009 - james blackshaw live review ameliasmagazine.com (UK) / no author listed
London-based 12-string guitarist, James Blackshaw, is known for his compositions possessing of a subtle complexity beyond his twenty something years.
10/12/2009 - lisa germano / magic neighbor review wordpress.com / no author
it has that creepy oddness, that beauty, and all it’s magical melancholy that her albums exude (yes, even the grim morning after confusion of liquid pig) but magic
neighbour has it in spades.
10/9/2009 - lisa germano / magic neighbor review blurt magazine / jennifer kelly
Germano again wraps disturbing imagery and disquieting epiphanies in velvety textures of piano and violin. However, her subject here seems to be less one of romantic suffering and more of escape through art.
10/8/2009 - lisa germano / magic neighbor review pitchfork / joshua Klein
...occasionally awkward intersection of intimacy and elusiveness pervades the disc, just as it pervades Germano's other high-wire-act works, but this time
the end effect is oddly inviting. It's almost as if we're being allowed a glimpse into a blurry movie flickering away in Germano's head, projected sans subtitles and its plot obscured, yet somehow no less affecting for it.
10/5/2009 - james blackshaw interview bigdistraction.com bigdistraction.com / phil styles
It is an exciting time for James Blackshaw. Having signed to the eternally credible Young God record label (founded by musical anti-hero Michael Gira from Swans and Angels Of Light) and released an album that can only be described as absolutely unique (and which has received rave reviews from
many different quarters of the musical press), he is now embarking upon a UK tour, giving music fans a chance to experience his remarkable dexterity first-hand.