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Lullaby For Liquid Pig
by Lisa Germano

Artist Direct / Ineffable
Indie, Pop, Rock
1 disc
Released 15 April 2003

After a five-year break from the music business, Lisa Germano returns with a new record deal and a new album, hoping to regain the cult following she developed through a series of critically-lauded releases for 4AD in the 1990s.

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

76 / 100

Critic Reviews

85 Pitchfork
Lullaby for Liquid Pig is deceptively potent; in just thirty minutes it divines your most closely held memories, guiding you farther and farther back with endless, heartbreaking choruses.
85 Filter
Disturbing, intense and emotionally stark. [#5, p.89]
83 E! Online
Totally depressing and totally engaging.
80 Blender
Unashamed candor often spells dreary self-indulgence. In Germano's insightful hands, it's fascinating and strangely exhilarating. [May 2003, p.119]
80 Q Magazine
A haunting, left-field album of some class. [Jun 2003, p.96]
80 PopMatters
Some of her finest work to date.
80 Flak Magazine
The devotion to setting such teetering to song is the album's strength. No matter the tune, Germano's pipes and strings swoon strong, hovering ominous and knowing like her floating magician's assistant body on the album's cover.
80 Splendid
Does nothing if not cement her place as one of the most unique, intelligent and subtly disarming artists in music today.
70 Ink 19
Vague and awkward.
60 Uncut
She still refuses to knock up any memorable tunes, but arthouse divas thus obsessed with ghosts and personal (if ill-described) demons are always fascinating. [Jun 2003, p.109]
60 All Music Guide
One of Lisa Germano's most accessible works yet.
60 Mojo
She breathes the vocals as if she were drifting in and out of death's door. [May 2003, p.95]

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