Angel with a Lisp.

During my recent bouts of fever, nauseau, and other unmentionables... I received a package in the mail that I didn't have the energy to pay any attention to. That is until today. At first I was unsure of a band calling itself "The Lisps" (it's another sensitive childhood memory), but when I saw they were doing an album release show on 9/26/06 with Vague Angels... I knew I had to listen.


"The Lisps are a New York-based assemblage of 21st century post-rock n' vaudeville auteurs. They write songs about science and love and sometimes perform in costumes, with tap shoes and without microphones. The Lisps are the public/performative version of all the relationships you're struggling with." So says their site, but what I'm really fascinated with is the diversity of this EP. After going from one song to the next, you wouldn't even know it was the same band if it weren't for the familiarity of the vocals. Sometimes that can get a little confusing for a fan base, but not for the musically obsessed nerds like me.

From the vain, the modest, and the dead (buy @ Insound):
Pepper Spray
Sidewalk Girls
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I was first introduced to Chris Leo and the Vague Angels back when I met Tanakh and went to see them perform. I was really impressed by the Vague Angels, but for some reason never got around to writing about them/him. Shame on me. You may have already heard of Chris' musical family (including brother Ted Leo) or his previous projects such as Native Nod, the Van Pelt, and the Lapse... but whether you have or haven't, you've got to appreciate the narrative style of lyrics and music so beautifully laced inbetween them.

From Let's Duke It Out at Kilkenny Katz' (buy @ Pretty Activity):
The Princess and the Newt
The Vague Angels of Vagary
+ Myspace