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Lisa Germano: Lullaby for Liquid Pig

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Germano Emerges From Slump

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May 4, 2003
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“I need a fix / A little one / And then it’s over / Then I’m done.” So begins the title track to Lullaby for Liquid Pig, Lisa Germano’s unsettling disquisition on addiction and desire.

By Steve Klinge
The Philadelphia Inquirer | May 4, 2003

“I need a fix / A little one / And then it’s over / Then I’m done.” So begins the title track to Lullaby for Liquid Pig, Lisa Germano’s unsettling disquisition on addiction and desire. Although Germano was John Mellencamp’s fiddle player through most of his 1980s heyday, she has no interest in populist anthems. Instead, she makes intensely private music, introspective fever dreams full of insecurities and cold comfort.

On Pig. Germano’s fifth album, her violin takes a backseat to tinkling, hesitant piano and eerie, reverberating guitar: it’s the sound of a music box heard in a nightmare. “Oh yeah, it’s my favorite feeling / Not there, what a good place to be,” Germano sings in her whispery, childlike voice on “Candy,” one of several odes to alcohol on this disturbing, tragically beautiful album.

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