FUTURE LISA
No Head for You (self-released)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This is a bizarre little discovery that might not make it outside of Minnesota. Future Lisa is one woman and a keyboard and a bunch of weird little songs about love and possession. Future Lisa sings sometimes in what sounds like a New Jersey accent, and what I guess is some sort of Minnesotan accent, and then in a kind of flat, dead voice that quavers like she's on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The keyboard playing isn't particularly tricky or complicated, mostly banging chords to accompany these songs about sex and love and boys stealing her flannel sheets and even autism. It's one of those things where the album's not particularly good, but it's so strange it's intriguing; you can't help listening to it over and over again, and making other people listen to it over and over again, which I guess makes it some type of good, because if it was bad, you just wouldn't bother. You know what I mean?

[Pick this up at www.futurelisa.dnswh.com.]

© 2005 - Holly Day