Lullaby for Liquid Pig

Ok I give up. Too hard to trust people. Stay alone and LOVE your addictions. Always there. NOT A GOOD WAY TO LIVE. So…?

After the release of Slide, Germano had largely resigned from the music business, vowing to never release another record. It would take five years before she re-emerged with one of her most beautiful albums to date in Lullaby for Liquid Pig.

Released in April 2003 on Ineffable/iMusic (a Universal sublabel) and later reissued by Young God Records, Lullaby for Liquid Pig marked Lisa Germano’s return after a long break from recording. The album is hushed, slow-moving, and heartbreakingly intimate—an after-hours reflection on addiction, emotional paralysis, and fragile hope.

“You don’t listen to Lullaby for Liquid Pig with other people in the room. You listen to it alone. I love this record, but it doesn’t work when you listen to it with others. I don’t think it works unless you’re alone.”

Lullaby for Liquid Pig was re-issued four years later, accompanied by a bonus disc of live and home recordings.

This album signaled a shift in Germano’s approach: quieter, more meditative, and deeply ambient. There’s less playfulness here and more resignation, but also a kind of strange, searching beauty.

Released: April 15, 2003
Label: Ineffable Records, iMusic, BMG Music
Format: CD, Digipak
Country: US
Availability: Moderate

No.	Title	Length
1	Nobody’s Playing	3:10
2	Paper Doll	3:02
3	Liquid Pig	3:03
4	Pearls	3:24
5	Candy	2:36
6	Dream Glasses Off	3:28
7	From a Shell	2:59
8	It’s Party Time	2:40
9	All the Pretty Lies	3:08
10	Lullaby for Liquid Pig	3:09
11	Into the Night	4:03
12	…To Dream	1:55

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Already lauded by such artists as Peter Gabriel, Neil Finn, and David Bowie for her beautiful and groundbreaking music, Lisa Germano offers her most daring album to date as her debut on the Ineffable/iMusic label. Scheduled for release in early April, Lullaby for Liquid Pig combines exquisite, unsettling tracks with lyrics whose blunt honesty is rare even among the most adventurous songwriters. Though enhanced by contributions from Finn, Johnny Marr, Wendy Melvoin, former Eels drummer Butch, and co-producers Joey Waronker and Jamie Candiloro, Lullaby for Liquid Pig is really one person’s chronicle—sometimes harrowing, sometimes seductive—of a battle with demons.

Personnel

“Paper Doll” engineered by Johnny Marr

“Into the Night” engineered by Neil Finn

Produced by Jamie Candiloro, Joey Waronker and Lisa Germano

Executive produced by Betty and Rocco Germano

Mixed by Jamie Candiloro and Joey Waronker

Mastered by Greg Calbi

All songs written by Lisa Germano

Artwork by Paul McMenamin
Photography by Matthew Welch