We & Lisa
In the eighties the two big musical antipoles were hard rock and synth music. Of course there were loads of other types of music, but it felt like it was important to choose side here, at least for us guys. I chose hard rock.
And it was of course impossible then to admit that you liked a song that contained a lot of synth sounds (seems like we made exceptions for the hard rock bands that used synths…); that would have been embarrasing.
Of course i liked a lot of synth songs anyway, in secrecy, and this music has come to play just as an important role for me as all other music from this era. But now I’ve grown up (eh, maybe not really…), and We & Lisa is a band that reminds me a lot of this period.
The first feeling is Pet Shop Boys, but it’s more basic and original than that. Simpler, not so pompous and with a focus on good melodies, a little like the synth music was in the beginning. And with a dreamy, nice feeling.
You can find We & Lisa on their site and on their Myspace page you can listen to more tracks. Here are a couple of songs.
