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Lissy Taylor - Life Changing
We review the bombastic new single from Lissy Taylor.
Stoke artist Lissy Taylor returned on March 15th with her latest single, ‘Life Changing’. It follows the news she is opening the main stage at this year’s Y Not’s Y Not Festival. Let’s see if it’s justified.
*banner image credit: Paul Gallagher
Last tie out on ‘Minds A Riot’, Taylor was in an explosive mood and showed no signs of settling here. The guitars howl with the pain and torment that the protagonist must overcome to alter their reality. Mercifully, her awe-inspiring lyrics temper the sonics’ ability to drag you to hell:
“You have the power to change your life / Get on it and come alive / You / You can reach paradise”
Taylor’s spirit evokes the era-defining clarion calls of ‘Definitely Maybe’ and ‘Stone Roses’. Hope is often spoken, written, and sung about, but it hasn't seemed possible for the past thirteen years. With an election looming and Taylor’s colossal power, the offshoots are again visible.
Good luck to whoever follows Taylor on the main stage at Y Not.
Lissy Taylor - Minds A Riot
Last time on ‘Feel For Me’, Taylor proved she had stadium-sized anthems. ‘Minds A Riot’ is its creative precursor. The kind that documentaries will rewind to when examining how the glass ceiling was smashed.
Stoke via Manchester songwriter Lissy Taylor returned mid-September with her new single ‘Minds A Riot’. Recorded at the iconic Abbey Road Studios with Tayte Nickols producing, it follows the blistering ‘Feel For Me’.
*banner image courtesy of Steve Holdway
Photo courtesy of Paul Gallagher
‘Minds A Riot’ is not your usual Abbey Road Studios affair. This isn’t Noel Gallagher with a 32-piece orchestra or the Beatles groundbreaking work on ‘Come Together’. This is a record determined to obliterate all that stands in its way.
Last time out on ‘Feel For Me’, Taylor proved she had stadium-sized anthems. ‘Minds A Riot’ is its creative precursor. The kind that documentaries will rewind to when examining how the glass ceiling was smashed.
The guitars launch into a violent spin, which takes breath only to scorch the earth again. The guitars firing sonic are fraught with danger and agitation as Taylor squares up to inner turmoil and isolation. Only the Stevie Knicks-esque breakdown allows a comfortable breath to be drawn, but only in the knowledge that the real pain and anguish is yet to be unleashed.
Amid the rage, Taylor howls, “Love is pain / Pain is Art” to serve as a firm reminder that not being okay is okay. It gives her remarkable songwriting depth, considering she’s only three years into her journey.