Lissie today shares her new EP ‘Promises’, a covers EP with a unique touch. She has picked a six-song collection of famous and renowned songs that hold personal significance to her own life experiences. That personal touch gives the songs an added layer of emotion, bringing something fresh and unique to material that is still instantly recognisable. Listen HERE.
After previewing the collection with her interpretations of The Pretenders’ ‘I’ll Stand By You’ (a song that she sang to her husband Mike at their wedding reception) and Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘America’ (which inspired a yearning to explore the wider world when she first heard it as a teenager), Lissie launches the EP with a video for her version of The Bangles’ ‘Eternal Flame’.
She recorded ‘Eternal Flame’ with the Travelling Band in Norway many years ago, before unearthing it during the process of making this EP, and is happy for it to see the light. The accompanying visual is a simple idea perfectly executed, with Lissie performing the song during a FaceTime call to a background that consists of beautiful images of the natural world.
The ‘Promises’ EP is completed by three other brand new recordings. She puts a modern country-rock spin on Fleetwood Mac’s sleek ‘80s pop classic ‘Everywhere’, and reshapes Alphaville’s ‘Forever Young’ with a contemporary style – a song she chose after her niece performed the song when Lissie danced with her father during her wedding day. Lissie’s final choice is the least well-known but arguably the most intriguing, as she infuses Low’s sparse ‘Just Make It Stop’ with an anxious beat and a touch of melancholy slide guitar.
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