LP (Laura Pergolizzi)
Lost On You

THE REVIEW

One of the best discoveries of this 2016, with a consequent (deserved) album purchase, was undoubtedly LP for me.

She comes from Long Island, and is half-Italian from Naples, the thirty-five-year-old (1981) Laura Pergolizzi.

Since 2001 she has initiated a decent songwriting career, benefiting from the support of numerous publishing houses vying for her verses. She has indeed written many pieces behind the scenes for artists of the caliber of Cher and Joe Walsh.

The real popularity, or rather, the recognition came with the launch single Lost On You and its beach-song rhythm filled with melancholy, which certainly made its way into millions of radio stations.

Preceded by the EP Death Valley, the album is marked by a sense of inadequacy and loneliness (many lyrics hint at sexual discrimination) in pieces like Tightrope and Other People. The latter I consider a particular necessity to read gem. The only black sheep (compared to the style of the other tracks) is the second track No Witness, musically surrounded by keyboards and a greater rhythmic impulse.

Guitar, an air of a wounded wolf, and background whistles, without too much ostentation or exaggeration. The particular timbre makes her style characteristic and recognizable from the start.

I never tried to be a hero is a verse that could summarize the emotions poured out by the girl, and for those who want to listen to a concentrate of simplicity and genuine spontaneity of a certain old-fashioned folk, it will undoubtedly be an enjoyable hour.