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Photo – Claire Warren

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Photo – Claire Warren

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Praise for Moaning Lisa

“With their blend of psych, punk and shoegaze and a live show that’s ready for big stages” – Triple j

“one of our favourite Australian bands at the moment”.” – Pilerats

“…a band that just can’t seem to stop kicking goals.”– Junkee

“Without a shadow of a doubt, Moaning Lisa are set to become the next big thing in Australian music.” – The AU Review 

“[‘Carrie’ is] a deliriously knotted song about queer role models… It’s a little tongue-in-cheek, but mostly it’s achingly earnest” – Stereogum

“[‘Something’] showcases not only a musical evolution for the group, but a considerable sonic step forward.” – RollingStone AU

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Off the back of revealing details of their forthcoming debut album, Something Like This But Not This, Moaning Lisa today announce they will be hitting the road for a national tour. The ‘Something Like This But Not This’ album tour will kick off in Meanjin/Brisbane on 14 October and hits all mainland capital cities and select regional towns throughout October, early November and February 2022. For fans it’s the perfect opportunity to see Moaning Lisa celebrate their album release in iconic venues across the country, making this the band’s biggest headline tour yet!

And the good news doesn’t stop there! Moaning Lisa have shared another cut from their debut record with the arrival of album opener ‘Cold Water’. Centered around three simple chords and propelled by intense dynamic shifts, a hard-hitting riff and Moaning Lisa’s signature rich harmonies and dueling vocals, it really is the ultimate Moaning Lisa song, all distilled into three and half minutes. 

Charlie Versegi (singer/guitarist) commented “Lyrically, Cold Water is about how it feels to be the target of another person’s saviour complex. Navigating relationships whilst struggling with a relatively high-functioning mental illness is exhausting and burdensome – you can easily fall into the trap of trying to assuage the people who worry about you. Saying that something is as simple as a glass of cold water is all you need to feel better encapsulates this complicated issue. We were channeling a bit of Mitski, Adalita, and Sleater-Kinney when we wrote this, but mostly we were channeling ourselves.”

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Moaning Lisa’s debut album Something Like This But Not This will be released on October 8. The twelve-track record features the band’s most recent offerings – ‘Something’ the first single released off the album featuring the band’s trademark brooding, fuzzed-out guitar sound. ‘Inadequacy’, the band’s current single, just last week had its video accompaniment released featuring two wrestlers going hard at it and the band “getting in their heads”. It’s the perfect visual for the song with its intensity and suspense.  

Moaning Lisa recorded Something Like This But Not This at Golden Retriever Studios in Sydney with Ben Moore as well as Calum Newton’s home studio in Melbourne. On the album’s announcement, the band said: “It’s our first album and so we wanted to capture who we are and who we have been as a band throughout this first part of our existence. The original thought behind the tracklist was to capture the dynamics and flow of our live set. We wanted to replicate the energy we have when we play on stage together but also experiment and do things we can only achieve with the luxury of recording in a studio.”

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‘COLD WATER’
OUT NOW
Listen Here / Download Here

‘SOMETHING LIKE THIS BUT NOT THIS’
RELEASE 8 OCTOBER 2021
PRE-ORDER HERE

‘Something Like This But Not This’
Tracklist

1. Cold Water
2. Enough
3. Waste
4. Too Many
5. Bike Riding
6. Something
7. Inadequacy
8. Sox
9. Don’t Dream
10. Working Still
11. Fussy
12. Wild Days

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