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All My Love In Half Light
A 9 track adult alternative album (41m 11s) — released May 12th 2014 on LebensStrasse
Lady Lazarus is the solo project of Melissa Ann Sweat, a singer-songwriter, artist, and creative writer from San Jose, Calif. now living in Joshua Tree, CA, known for her enchanting and minimalist songs for mainly voice and piano. Her music touches on dream pop and experimental folk, and has been compared to Cat Power, Smog/Bill Callahan, Joanna Newsom, Grouper, and Daniel Johnston, among others, while nodding to composers like Philip Glass and Erik Satie.
Taken from the Sylvia Plath poem of the same name, Lady Lazarus began in 2008 when Melissa started teaching herself keyboard, and writing and recording songs while living in San Francisco. Inspired by a cross-country train trip, she moved to Savannah, Georgia in the fall of 2010 and toured along the East Coast and Southeast in support of her self-released debut.
Lady Lazarus received breakthrough press in 2011 for her debut album, Mantic, including a 7.8 review from Pitchfork, and praise from Stereogum, Beats Per Minute, and many others in the U.S. and abroad. On 2013, Lady Lazarus self-released her new album, All My Love In Half Light, to critical acclaim from Pitchfork, NPR, SPIN, Interview Magazine, Consequence of Sound, Beats Per Minute, and more. In March, she contributed a cover of Jason Molina's "Don't It Look Like Rain" to Graveface Records' tribute album to the late Molina, featuring covers by Mark Kozelek, Will Oldham, John Vanderslice, Scout Niblett, Phil Elverum, Damien Jurado, and other artists.
“As Lady Lazarus, California dreamer Melissa Ann Sweat crafts intimate miniatures, mostly for solo voice and piano, and 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 - 7.8” - Brian Howe Pitchfork
Sweat has been delicately crafting dirges reminiscent of the evocative, female vocal-drive atmospherics Grouper. - Harley Brown Spin.com
“Sweat introduces her aptitude for creating singular songs, soaring beyond what her previous work foreshadowed.” - Philip Cosores Consequence Of Sound
languid and surreal - Lorie Leibig and Bob Boilen NPR
piano-and-vocal performances are hauntingly somber and spacious - Chris DeVille Stereogum
reverb-heavy piano confessionals - Jeremy The Needle Drop
The album finds Sweat layering stirring vocals weeping over droning piano lines. It is highly cinematic in scope but still maintains a rawness to keep it honest. - My Old Kentucky Blog
Her gently lilting compositions recall the eerie warmth of early Beach House efforts coupled with the stark hermitude of piano-bound singer-songwriters like Perfume Genius or Youth Lagoon - Colin Joyce Interview Magazine
The intimacy of the record absorbs the listener, making us privy not only to Melissa Ann Sweat’s journey as a creative artist, but also to the gentle nuances of the lyrics. - Rick Marcello Bowlegs Music
Her debut album Mantic was released in 2011 to a flurry of critical acclaim, and Sweat returned this year with follow-up LP All My Love In Half Light. - Dacey Orr Paste Magazine
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