Liz Lamere

Liz Lamere has announced her debut album Keep It Alive, due May 20th via In The Red. After collaborating with late partner Alan Vega (<a href="spotify:artist:6uVeWolwyRDrT84lLsaZyW" data-name="Suicide">Suicide</a>) for over three decades on his solo work, and starting out playing drums in punk bands, she is releasing her own music. Today, she also shares lead single “Lights Out,” the album opener which hits hard with brutal electronic drums, intense and poetic vocals, countered by dynamic textures and melodic synth riffs. The track channels the upfront positive spirit and deftly-brandished aggression that imbues the whole album.

All of the music and lyrics on Keep It Alive were written and performed by Liz Lamere. It was recorded in her lower Manhattan apartment during lockdown, engineered by her and Alan’s son Dante Vega Lamere in the same space where the Suicide singer constructed his light sculptures. They emerged with a riveting set of songs that are charged with irrepressible lust for life and the feel for the contagious hook. The album was then co-produced and mixed by Jared Artaud (<a href="spotify:artist:6TdXT9hdYNXu1Lwu6fA7xW" data-name="The Vacant Lots">The Vacant Lots</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2jlt5Z6VojDVMzSj1JHkcd" data-name="Alan Vega">Alan Vega</a>) and Liz Lamere, with Ted Young engineering the mixing sessions and Josh Bonati mastering.