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Released: Jan 29, 2013

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Genre: Experimental / Minimalist / Showtunes
Location Los Angeles, Un
Profile Views: 91934
Last Login: 1/28/2013
Member Since 5/31/2008
Website ladylazarus.net
Record Label self-released
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Lady Lazarus is the solo music project of Melissa Ann Sweat, a singer-songwriter, artist, and creative writer from San Jose, California now living in Los Angeles.
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Melissa (words & music, keyboard/piano, glockenspiel, harmonica, accordion...)
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intuitive music /// smog / bill callahan, mount eerie / the microphones, joanna newsom, bjork, cat power, elliott smith, aimee mann, gillian welch, guided by voices, pavement, yo la tengo, hem, sparklehorse, dirty three, nina simone, tom waits, vashti bunyan... /// having a room of my own
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"Lapsarian" by Lady Lazarus

03:34 | 14 plays | Feb 6 2013

Latest Blog Entries

Mar 26, 2013 4:15 AM Two SoCal Shows with Youth Lagoon - April 2013
Feb 13, 2013 7:45 PM Pitchfork Reviews 'All My Love In Half Light'
Feb 7, 2013 12:18 AM NPR Premieres "Lapsarian" Music Video on All Songs Considered
Jan 29, 2013 5:05 PM New album All My Love In Half Light out now
Dec 28, 2012 11:25 PM "A lovely & chilling cut" -SPIN: Hear 'Wonder, Inc.'

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"...languid and surreal..." - NPR (Feb. 2013)

“As Lady Lazarus, California dreamer Melissa Ann Sweat crafts intimate miniatures, mostly for solo voice and piano, then slowly drowns them in oceans of reverb... It's impossible to decide whether the music is constantly changing or totally still, a strangely placid kind of tension that never fails to draw me in.” - Pitchfork (Feb. 2013)

“Sweat introduces her aptitude for creating singular songs, soaring beyond what her previous work foreshadowed.” - Consequence of Sound (Jan. 2013)

“Hear Lady Lazarus’ beautiful, ‘Wonder, Inc.’, a lovely and chilling cut off Melissa Ann Sweat’s sophomore effort, ‘All My Love In Half Light.” - SPIN (Dec. 2012)

"In her hauntingly primitive music, bloodless conflicts were waged: between the liquid weightlessness of dream-pop and the earthy tactility of folk, the cloudy drift of Erik Satie and the lightning pulses of Philip Glass. 'Lapsarian,' the lead track from Lady Lazarus’ forthcoming album, All My Love In Half Light, resolves those conflicts in dramatic fashion." - Pitchfork, track review (Oct. 2012)

"The songs are full of places and things that were available to her... Sweat played every note. When she asks, 'Who's gonna sing it but me?' on 'Eye of the Storm', it doesn't feel like an idle question. Mantic thrives on the sense of being alone with the last voice in the world. Lots of people use music to try and escape their living rooms, but Lady Lazarus seems more interested in inviting us into hers." - Pitchfork (Jan. 2011)

"Her work’s hushed and homemade, ambitious, affecting, and oddly polished in its specificity." - Stereogum (Jan. 2011)

"Like listening to the upcoming James Blake record, Mantic shows the magic that space can create. And Lady Lazarus, whose name likely comes from a Sylvia Plath poem, knows how to use lack of sound to accentuate the actual sounds." - One Thirty BPM (Feb. 2011)

“Fans of shadowy dream-pop will be pleased to discover San Jose’s Lady Lazarus… Her voice is lovely, and nothing is over- or undersold. With slight drags, hesitations, and lunges on the piano, she wrings emotional volumes from that endlessly cycling scale. …It makes this moment of uncanny stillness a shelter you want to stay inside. It’s really slight, and more than ample.” - Pitchfork, track review (Feb. 2010)
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