SUICIDE collaborator LIZ LAMERE channels dark, industrial electro on first album

LIZ LAMERE

Keep It Alive (In The Red)

Liz Lamere and her son Dante Vega Lamere spent one of the many lockdowns shut away in their lower Manhattan apartment, creating music in the same space that the late maverick NYC artist and musician Alan Vega created his visual art. Lamere was not only the Suicide legend’s wife but also his creative partner, working with Vega on many of his solo albums. Keep It Alive, Liz Lamere’s debut, has a dark, infectious electro/industrial groove running through it.

Lamere’s voice, with her songs of adaptability and strength, has the same emotive power as Zola Jesus or Siobhan Fahey. Subway Cyanide is a song that Vega himself would have probably given the thumbs up to; as a whole, Keep It Alive does not sound like a debut, but more like the sound of an artist impressively hitting their stride on their third or fourth album. A captivating listen. 

words DAVID NOBAKHT