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Lysergamide releases Long awaited followup to "Time for Change"
Hippie band adopts harder edge as it moves into Alternative
Vrassa City, Duchy of Vrassa
February 18, 5475


Bisque features switches to Alternative Rock for "Bisque"

Vrassan Alt-Folk Band Lysergamide has released their long awaited second album on VDR. The 14-Song sophomore effort shows a band that is growing beyond their original alt-folk roots and adopting a more electrified sound with more distortion, more huge drum fills and more Loud, produced vocals of singer Max Harrison. "VDR has put a lot of effort into making their kind of intimate sound that we heard on 'Time For Change' a lot bigger," said producer Freddy Southern, of VDR. "I think 'Bisque' is a document of a band coming out of its shell and embracing the sort of fan base they have acquired over the past few years."

The new album explores a number of themes, including the prospect of new fatherhood (Harrison's baby daughter was born in December and the song Nico is about his first experiences as a father) to a tribute to an old life lost ("Vera' is an ode to the Bassist's tobacco chewing grandmother, who was sort of a den mother to the band and made sure they always had food even if they didn't have money and who passed away last summer.) There are songs about a variety of human experiences, from neglect of one's own health to a tongue in cheek story about the lengths serial killers go through to acquire new victims, told from the killer's perspective. The newest single from the album, "Life Gives you Lemons" is a blues rock banger that gradually transforms into an instudio Dixieland Jazz breakdown inspired by music the band heard when vacationing in Baltusia.

"We set out initially to make a concept album, but about half way through writing it, we scrapped that idea and just decided to follow the spirit," said Max Harrison. "While this music, I think took a little getting used to for us as a band, it was something that we all contributed to, and kind of is the sound of us jelling as a band. I think that is what makes me love the music we created together here." The core quintet was joined by the studio brass trio Ulysses, Siren and One-Eye on several songs, as well as guest vocalist Amy Carino, who sang a haunting descant on "Dental Decay". "Amy was a real trooper," said Harrison. "It was so hard to focus on that song, because it is just really sad, and I had been drinking a lot the say we recorded, and was dealing with a bunch of stuff and was just... just you know, kinda like emotionally exhausted, and when she sang, like a lot of times, it just made me kinda cry. But she's a professional, you know, and she she just you know, kinda kept it all together, and when I was done falling apart, we just hit it again." The song is the penultimate song on the album and is probably the closest to the band's "Time for a Change" Alt-Folk Roots.

You can now pick up Lysergamide's "Bisque" on VDR from your nearest record shop, listen to KRTVN Radio 1 where they will play the album front to back on Tuesday night at 2100, and check out the second single, "Life Gives You Lemons" performed live on M7's "Live and Loud" last week, right here:

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKYQiVOqRCM]