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12:31 PM - The Lisps - Country Doctor Museum
The Lisps are not exactly a rock band (and trust me, this was cause for some funny looks when I booked them on MiG's release show in June of last year). "Quirky" is an unavoidable description of this quartet, as their tendency towards a (quite refreshing) sense of humor in their music and performance is something that music fans don't seem to get much of these days. Acoustic guitars and melodicas take the place of loud electric guitars, but don't think that makes this band subtle. They create quiet a racket and can get any room going. However, some of their more effective musical moments tend to be when they tone down the theatrics and let their incredible pop and folk songwriting skills come through. The first proof of this came in the form of songs like 2006's "Pepper Spray" and is true of new material as well. This weekend The Lisps celebrate the release of their first full-length album, Country Doctor Museum (officially out Tuesday, January 8th) with a show at Joe's Pub in New York City on Saturday, January 5th [click for flyer]. The album covers a huge range of styles, and has everything that Lisps fans have come to love about them over the past two years, here's a sampling that cover (in order, to over-generalize) the folk, the quirky fun pop, and the ambitious and downright cracked out epic sea shanty/hootenanny: The Lisps - "Brackish Water" My favorite track on the record is among the most sedate. "Heaven" tells a simple tale of missing someone and trying to find them (more or less.) The first time I remember hearing it was upstairs at Pianos, and I'm not sure why but it made me sad, though it was a really beautiful song. As I tend to do, I've been pestering Crazy César Dino Head (my current nickname for the member of The Lisps who sings the tune - he has a blog too!) about my fascination with it, enough so that he revealed a bit about the origins of the song: "I wrote that song on new years day 2007, shaking from my hangover, the only thing i could do was play something soothing on guitar, to not feel sick and i came up with that song." It definitely is soothing, and now just over a year later it's finally available on a record for the world to hear. Check it out: Buy tickets to The Lisps' record release show at Joe's Pub this Saturday. 
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The Lisps - "I'm Sorry"
The Lisps - "The Familiar Drunk"
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