Liz Lieber-No Place Like This
Liz Lieber weaves the threads of reality with optimism. As a musician, she tries telling tales, opening the envelope to her heart with melody. Her writing is as relatable as the struggles and joys in life, and her catalogue is the mixture of these very feelings. Her latest single is a ballad that is a salute to carpe diem. This is No Place Like This. Often times, all a love song really needs is honesty. With the floating piano notes and her heavenly voice surrounding the atmosphere, you’re guided into the moment instantly. Liz Lieber brings images with the contemporary setting that is wrapped around her, instead of making it a vague collection of feelings. The result is infused with moments of wishful thinking, creative writing and the joys of finding that special someone. You feel her vocals and lyrics, imagining a very simple life, with the joys being in the nuance of little things. Her story draws parallels to The Wizard of Oz, and all connect to the story and her trajectories from it. Liz Lieber very cleverly writes around this moment, which could have been a couple of seconds. The result is a ballad that will last forever. The Spectacular Now (2013) is a movie I connected with when I heard this track. Beautifully crafted with stellar imagery and dialogues, Liz would put life into particular scenes in the roll, making it even richer. Her singles like Stuck, Love Don’t Run are fan favourites for her realistic approach to what would be modern romance. Listen to her single and feel the love tonight!
Liz Lieber - Play Pretend
Liz Lieber gives us women the perfect background music as we do the most mundane tasks as Play Pretend. It encapsulates womanhood to perfection. She creates a dish that brings out every moment of childhood that was folded and filed away in the crevice of our brain. Liz has this ability to effortlessly glide and cramp in years' worth of experiences in 4 minutes in the most poetic and cinematic way possible. And Play Pretend holds up to her brand and genre of music which falls under excellence. There is an easiness to this dish of nostalgia that she serves us. She perfects the art of serving us some necessary but heartbreaking truth in poem format. And she does this by adding equal parts sass, hope and memories. Adulthood and the transition into adulthood is hard for everyone. But it is a special kind of dull ache to know that you are a functioning person who has this adulting thing down but somewhere in the past you were a carefree individual who used to play pretend in the sand pit. Liz does this so beautifully, to have us reminisce about the past with a sad-ish smile on our faces as we listen to her velvet voice melt our hearts. This track would be perfect in Derry Girls. When I tell you Derry Girls has slowly accumulated a cult following of its own, I mean it. Liz’s song fits into their style of music as well. Liz Lieber has a style of her own and has a distinct aura of music-making. She will no doubt be ruling the Indie Music world with the grace of a butterfly. You can click on the links attached above to listen to more such gems.