Lispector - Guide To Personal Happiness

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4...according to our Brian on Wed 13 Aug, 2008.

Really glad to see Twisted Nerve still in fine fettle with all these curious Finders Keepers releases landing every few weeks like.....A ten year anthology of the bedroom recordings from a lady called Julie next. She goes under the name Lispector and writes these beautiful shambling keyboard & recorder flecked folk pop songs with gloriously touching lyrics about ice cream men, dreams, coffee machines & Summer! Coming in somewhere between Listen With Sarah & Mirah, this is proof in the pudding that almost anyone can make great, original AND accessible music with hardly any money or backing and someone, somewhere will get to hear it one day and fall totally in love with it and create you a platform to be heard by a larger crowd. 'Guide to Personal Happiness' sounds like a classic K records album, is full of fantastic, delightful sassy lo-fi songs ranging from the scared, pissed off, dreamy and delirious. Than kyou, Julie Margat for this precious insight into your soul! I truly hope the music didn't stop in 2007! Also for fans of Kimya Dawson maybe? Make it yours!

Lispector is Julie Margat and her tape recorder. This freethinking globetrotter from the south of France has translated her homemade one-woman-quiet-riot into numerous self-released cassettes and privately pressed releases since 1996 (not to mention appearing on the Twisted Nerve / Finders Keepers compilations ‘Now Is The Winter Of Our Discount Tents’ and ‘Bearded Ladies’) armed only with a handful of Yamaha keyboards, a sequencer, a drum machine and an acoustic guitar.
With a handful of albums under her belt, including her 2000 debut ‘Human Problems And How To Solve Them’, self-released on her own Ponytail Records whilst living in New York, Julie’s 4 and 8 track home recordings embrace the true nature of independent music and are brimming with minimalist rhythms, careful arrangements, uneven guitars and dusty synths – keeping in line with Twisted Nerve’s original A&R policy of “releasing music that you wouldn’t hear elsewhere”.
On the eve of it’s 10th anniversary Twisted Nerve Records are proud to present ‘A Guide To Personal Happiness’.

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