Lady Lamb ^us^

Aly Spaltro, ook wel bekend als Lady Lamb, schrijft al liedjes sinds 2007. Destijds experimenteerde ze na sluitingstijd in de lokale videotheek waar ze werkzaam was met het spelen en opnemen van muziek. De popmuziek die ze tegenwoordig maakt heeft een ontwikkeling doorgemaakt, maar is nog steeds experimenteel te noemen. In het voorjaar van 2019 kwam haar derde studioalbum Even in the Tremor uit. Op de plaat zingt ze over “the messy business of being human” en het vinden van empathie in de kleine dingen van het alledaagse. 

De Amerikaanse singer-songwriter is vastberaden om met haar romantische stemgeluid en scherpzinnige verhalen je volledig in te pakken en met een warm gevoel weer naar huis te laten vertrekken.

In July 2016, Alex Toth was recovering from a broken foot and a broken heart, stuck in his fourth-floor apartment in Brooklyn with cast and crutches. This is where Tōth’s “achingly beautiful” debut album, Practice Magic and Seek Professional Help When Necessary, was born.

A few months earlier, Alex and his Rubblebucket cofounder and love of more than eleven years had “consciously uncoupled,” after a period of helping each other through devastating challenges. Alex was lightning-struck by sadness. “Almost convalescent” at times, in his words, though rarely still. A jazz trumpeter by training, Alex is always, always writing. And that spring, a new kind of music started to come—raw, stripped-down songs unfurling without agenda, bent over an acoustic guitar. It never occurred to Alex that he was making an album.

The idea sprouted in songwriting sessions with his friend Kimbra, when she heard this new sound and encouraged Alex to make a record. But it didn’t solidify until June 2016, when Alex was onstage with his punk project, Alexander F, and broke his foot. Stuck there in his apartment all summer, Tōth came to life.

Practice Magic and Seek Professional Help When Necessary, due May 2019 from Northern Spy Records (worldwide) and Figureight Records (UK/Europe), is a self-help guide unlike any other—a breakup album before wholeness, but after anger. It’s an album for remembering and letting go—and discovering what magic remains.