NEW ALBUM, BAD VACATION, OUT JULY 24 2020 ON ARTS & CRAFTS RECORDS
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“With Byrne-ian cadences over punchy instrumentation and the occasional zap of synth, the song has all the frantic energy one feels when you’re trying to argue with yourself to stop arguing.” - (On “Change My Mind”) Consequence of Sound
“Nervy….bright and addictive….subtly devastating.” – Stereogum
"Bold in both sound and subject,” - NPR
“Pushes her sound even further” -The Fader
“Art rock anthems about overcoming the lows with vibrant riffs and her lighthearted voice emanating hope” - PASTE
Liza Anne today released, “Change My Mind” from her forthcoming album Bad Vacation, out July 24 on Arts & Crafts Records. Bad Vacation marks a new sonic direction for Liza and is a hybrid of new wave, art rock and 90s indie grunge-pop and is set to establish Liza as a breakthrough independent artist and a bold young voice in mental health self awareness.
The track’s punchy guitar and Sci-Fi synths soundtrack Liza’s self-reflective vocals, which analyze the intertwining of egos and confrontation in relationships. Consequence of Sound, said of the track “with Byrne-ian cadences over punchy instrumentation and the occasional zap of synth, the song has all the frantic energy one feels when you’re trying to argue with yourself to stop arguing.”
Discussing the new song, Liza stated, “‘Change My Mind’ is a chaotic puzzle of emotions of all the places I tend to go when I am angry and feel my back to the wall. I have a really hard time letting my guard down in conflict - I tend to get defensive and sensitive and throw my walls up. Where there is inflamed ego, there’s hardly room for understanding. This song holds hope of wanting the person on the other side to be there while you soften up, someone to challenge you to a place of connection, someone who is safe to grow in front of and with. I am so sad that I ever learned conflicts in relationships are something to be won - you’re on the same team. Winning is connection.”
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Bad Vacation has been compared to the work of a diverse range of artists from contemporaries including St. Vincent to legendary art rock group, Talking Heads. Liza recently received acclaim from NPR Music who stated, “it feels good to hear [Liza] casting off the parts of her life that bring her down,” AV Club praised Liza’s blend of “old-school indie and Fleetwood Mac-esque melodic flourishes, with a passion that simultaneously evokes contemporaries like Courtney Barnett.” Paste described Liza as “freely electrifying,” with AVClub and Paste including Liza in their features on albums they are excited about in 2020.
Liza has opened sold out runs with Kacey Musgraves and Ray LaMontagne, made her national television debut on CONAN, and won praise from Hayley Williams who asked Liza to join Paramore on their inaugural Art + Friends festival. Liza recently launched #EmotionalHealth2020 rallies - a live mental health focused interview series airing weekly on Liza’s Instagram. Each Tuesday at 6 PM CT featuring Liza with friends and collaborators including Shamir, Madison Cunningham, and Caroline Rose, with more on deck for future conversations, including Daisha McBride.
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Bad Vacation is a self aware account of the emotionally difficult years that followed Fine But Dying’s success. The album reflects on her teenage years where she broke free of a repressive religious environment as well as her later self destructive years and the healing that followed. Much of the album focuses on the time on tour and where, fresh out of an exhausting relationship, which took a considerable toll on both her physical and mental health, Liza found herself often at her lowest and gained the insight that she was behaving in a way she learned to be destructive. Liza said, “I was a wreck. I was on a bender for emotional safety, not knowing that I could be my own healing space.”
She underwent intensive therapy that led to painful reckonings and valuable epiphanies to write her way out of the panic and anxiety, writing odes to autonomy and self-respect and who she wanted to see in the mirror.
The album was tracked in Kyle Ryan’s studio, Wardenclyffe South, in Nashville (With the exception of “Devotion” and “Desire” which were tracked at Kingsize Studios and Chez JMJ), with her touring band (guitarist Robbie Jackson, bassist Josh Gilligan, and drummer Cody Carpenter), alongside Nashville musician, Lou Hayat who creatively contributed to the project, adding french spoken word vocals and synth parts.
Liza Anne has created a virtual retreat to accompany her album release, a ‘Bad Vacation’ micro-site – featuring a 1-800 hotline, reading list, playlist, bundles, and more at BadVacation.co. This is where you’ll learn - A Bad Vacation with Liza Anne is better than a good day anywhere else!
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BAD VACATION TRACK LIST
East Beach For Fourteen Seconds
Bad Vacation
I Shouldn’t Ghost My Therapist
Terrible Discovery
Devotion
Change My Mind
Bummer Days
This Chaos, That Feeling
Oops
Desire
I Wanna Be There
Too Soon