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Lisa Germano: Apathy and the Devil

I think of Germano’s work as in a line with the novels of Jean Rhys or the sculptures of Louise Bourgeois: minutely crafted, beautiful but never fragile, familiar and then unexpectedly sharp.
May 22, 2013
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Elephant Talk: Lisa Germano

Singer, multi-instrumentalist and Michael Gira fave Lisa Germano conjures up a seductive blend of painful beauty and wounded sentiments on ninth album "No Elephants".
April 11, 2013
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Lisa Germano (Photo: James Dean)

Lisa Germano: Interview

Lisa Torem chats to cult artist Lisa Germano about her album, 'No Elephants,' and working with Calexico, Johnny Marr, Michael Gira and the Smashing Pumpkins
March 24, 2013
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Lisa Germano (Photo: Dina Douglass)

Lisa Germano: No Elephants

There has always been a kind of ornate misery to Lisa Germano’s music. She is best known for her ’90s albums for dream-pop label 4AD, which had a rare combination of intricate beauty and unflinching challenge, a music box of nightmares.
March 7, 2013
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Remembering How to Feel

An accomplished singer-multi-instrumentalist first spotlighted as a member of John Mellencamp's touring band in the late '80s and early '90s, Lisa Germano has recorded and toured with a diverse legion of rock and pop stars including Eels, David Bowie, Crowded House, Philip Selway (Radiohead) and Giant Sand.
February 28, 2013
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Lisa Germano: No Elephants

No Elephants is Lisa Germano's ninth record, and her fourth since declaring that she was quitting the music business forever in 1998. The somewhat restricted palette explored here might scan as "pretty", but the lyrics are classic Germano: jarring, rough-hewn, and anguished.
February 13, 2013
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Lisa Germano: No Elephants

Lisa Germano’s spare fragility, her whispery confidentiality, would come off as too precious if she didn’t pay such great attention to the craftsmanship of her writing.
February 9, 2013
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Lisa Germano: No Elephants

In No Elephants, Germano uses a good deal of animal imagery, returning again and again to the idea of an imbalance between humans and the natural world.
February 5, 2013
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