Lizzy McAlpine - five seconds flat (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Five seconds flat, the 2022 album by Lizzy McAlpine, is available on standard black vinyl, CD and digital. A 2022 artist to watch, Lizzy has crafted a deeply intimate and beautiful album featuring GRAMMY Award winners FINNEAS and Jacob Collier.

AllMusic Review by Matt Collar
There's an arresting quality to Lizzy McAlpine's music, one that holds you in the moment and makes you aware of the air in the room. It's that soft, encompassing sound that she explores on her debut full-length, 2022's Five Seconds Flat. Purportedly recorded after a difficult breakup, the album has the warm intimacy of talking to your best friend on the phone late at night. McAlpine's voice is a shimmering, delicate whisper, and her songs feel just as tender, like diary entries or bittersweet confessions posted to a blog. She has a knack for picking out the seemingly mundane details of an experience that, in retrospect, become totems for deeper emotions. On "All My Ghosts" she sings, "We made sangria and failed/I spilled mac and cheese on my pants/And thought about kissing you underneath kitchen lights." It's a poetic quality, imbued with a raw heartache, as on "Chemtrails," a song about the death of her father where she admits, "I still listen to that band that you showed me last April." Fans who discovered her online, or with 2021's equally intimate When the World Stopped Moving: The Live EP will find much to connect with here. Folky anthems like "All My Ghosts," "Ceilings," "Doomsday," and "Called You Again" are gorgeously rendered with woody acoustic guitars offset by piano, buzzy electric guitar accents, and the occasional crescent moon spiral of synth. We also get nicely curated guest spots from FINNEAS, Jacob Collier, Laura Elliott, and Ben Kessler. Thankfully, none of this detracts from McAlpine, whose quietly candid intensity remains a constant throughout all of Five Seconds Flat.

Tracklist:
1. doomsday (04:28)
2. an ego thing (02:50)
3. erase me (feat. Jacob Collier) (03:34)
4. called you again (03:12)
5. all my ghosts (03:17)
6. reckless driving (feat. Ben Kessler) (03:09)
7. weird (feat. Laura Elliott) (03:29)
8. ceilings (03:02)
9. what a shame (02:48)
10. firearm (03:02)
11. hate to be lame (feat. FINNEAS) (02:36)
12. nobody likes a secret (01:48)
13. chemtrails (03:57)
14. orange show speedway (03:46)


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