My Wild West
Lissie's debut boasted some venerable personnel—collaborators of Tom Waits and Modest Mouse, among others—and her impressively yarling voice, which got her discovered. My Wild West, her first album on her own label, is full of sturdily crafted but MOR songs.
Lissie, in many ways, is emblematic of the millennial/post-millennial generation';s golden promise: follow your dream, work…
The possessive in the title of Lissie's third album is telling: no matter how often this echoes the slow, narcotic sway of Lana Del Rey, this California is conjured by Illinois native Lissie, an adult-alternative singer/songwriter who has slowly crept away from the folk roots she displayed on her 2010 debut, Catching a Tiger.
Lissie’s third album mixes a west-coast pop sheen with countrified delicacy, and painfully honest tales of insecurity