A lot of folks first got the word about Lisa Marr when fellow Canadian with alt-country tendencies Neko Case covered her song "In California" (from the debut Lisa Marr Experiment album 4 AM) on her EP Canadian Amp, and actually Marr and Case would make a pretty good musical match. While Marr lacks Case's wondrously clear pipes, she has a fine, strong voice that serves up both rock & roll and honky tonk tunes with equal skill, and in Marr's lyrical world things tend...   [ read more ]

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4 am is a wander through the wee hours of the morning when hearts are hurting and blood is boiling, featuring LISA MARR (BUCK, CUB), David Philips (FRANK BLACK & THE CATHOLICS, PERFECT), Sherri Solinger (THE MURMURS, LONGSTOCKING) and Mike Flannagan (BREECH, HELIOTROPE).

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Lisa Marr delivers a mumbled profanity within the opening moments of 4 AM, which somehow sets the stage of what is to follow. Not that the rest of the album is filled with nothing but cussing, but it does reveal an influence from early-period Liz Phair. Imagine Phair dropping some of the sexual thematic matters and fronting an alt-country band and you begin to get an idea for what Marr presents. The songs alternate genre between honky tonk Americana and tough-grrl indie rock. The instrumenta...   [ read more ]

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