Lisa Germano - Geek the Girl
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Artist: Lisa GermanoEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Music Label: 4ad / Ada
Soundtracks:
- My Secret Reason
- Trouble
- Geek the Girl
- Just Geek
- Cry Wolf
- A ...A Psychopath
- Sexy Little Girl Princess
- Phantom Love
- Cancer of Everything
- A Guy Like You
- ...of Love and Colors
- Stars
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Free Music Review: "Faith Amung Disbelievers"
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm sorry, but Lisa Germano is a genius. Her music is extremely difficult to pigeonhole. She is a a trained violinist (who backed up John Mellencamp years back) who writes troubled rock/folk songs. Her lyrics are parred-down and naive and almost childlike, communicating fears about really complex situations in really simple language. I can't thing of another musician who can easily get away with a phrase like "love is weird" (on "Cry Wolf"). But she totally can. Her compositions are very simple and melodic, but there is always an undermining of dissonance, which is curious and unsettling and beautiful all at once. Her music often illustrates a message from the perspective of an introspective and intoverted adolescent girl, who is often puzzled and paranoid about her experiences. it is this perspective that makes her music so original, and ultimately potent.
My favorite song on this LP is "Cancer of Everything." It is SO funny and sad and pretty revealing about people that are introverted and paranoid. I am also really smitten by the first track, "My Secret Reason," which is really confessional and kind of frightening. But the whole CD really takes you on an emotional roller-coaster ride, which is a really welcomed experience.
I would not agree, however, that this album is "scary" by any means. Yes-there are moments that reveal the horror of situations, but there also an equal amount of really playful and humourous moments as well (check out "Just Geek" and "Trouble")...it is a very well-balanced foray into the human psyche. Troubling and moving, but also managing to remain cute and possitive in the end.
If you're still unable to picture her sound, just think of Liz Phair writing music from the perspective of a sexually repressed teenage girl. then add some violin and some serious mood, and there you are. Lisa Germano is a truly original musician in a time where using those two words together is pretty rare. She is relatively unknown (not her fault) and pathetically underappreciated (again-not her fault).
She has been around for quite a few years now, and everybody should be taking notice.
Please also check out her other releases, especially "Happiness" and "Love Circus." The song "Forget it, it's a Mystery" is a real treat.
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