Single Review

Lizzyspit – Trouble Lies Deep EP

• 1st Apr 2014

Australian singer/ songwriter Lizzyspit is something of a digital success story, with her followers on social media sites numbering in the millions. Her indie pop songs and videos have been viewed in vast numbers and The Spits, as her fans are known, have now helped to propel her towards mainstream success.

Lizzyspit is releasing the Trouble Lies Deep EP on Rifton Records, and it acts as a good introduction to a very talented performer. The arrangements are fairly stark and simple, and that allows her beautifully clear and emotional vocals the room to shine. Once Upon A Time tells of regret over the one that got away, while All Dressed Up Nowhere To Go portrays sadness to perfection. Both of these tracks are delivered with a clarity and a subdued power that chills.

Lead single Goodbye (To The Ones Who Screwed You Over) sees more range in the performance, starting softly and building into a determined resilience as the tone moves from regret to a single minded desire for a new beginning. It’s the best of the EP’s songs, and has what it takes to be a radio hit. Closing track Gone Gone Gone is a simple acoustic track, the delicate guitar picking behind the vocals working well in a good break up song.

Lizzyspit lives in the relationship song territory that many female singer songwriters occupy, and it has been fertile ground for many. Her emotional delivery and beautifully clear voice gives Lizzyspit something just a little different, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see digital success turn to chart success.

Venue: Trouble Lies Deep EP
Support Band: Rifton Records