Suburban Sprawl & Alcohol | 
 enlarge | Artist: L.p.
Label: Light Switch
Category: Music
Buy New: $11.98
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 97511
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.5
UPC: 821838217428
EAN: 0821838217428
ASIN: B000274TQW
Release Date: June 29, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Wasted | | • | The Darkside | | • | All I Have | | • | Get Over Yourself | | • | Suburban Sprawl & Alcohol | | • | Little Death | | • | Change of Scenery | | • | Nowhere | | • | Never Was | | • | Heartless | | • | Cadillac Life |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
"Everything's waiting here" for fans of great rock 'n' roll. July 14, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For some "hot fun in the summertime," try this album from indie-rock band L.P., which share those initials with its unnamed & enigmatic frontwoman. Eleven songs of love, lust & longing raise the temperature and crackle with the enery of heat lightening on a summer night.
The fragile powerhouse who fronts L.P. is a young woman whose meticulously honed talent brings us an arresting array of material in this album that should not be such a well-kept secret. Songs range from the bachanalian chant of "Little Death" to the soulful anthem (& title track) "Suburban Sprawl & Alcohol."
The vital rock format is well-crafted here, but the propulsive music is anything but generic. Treat yourself to something that will stop you in your/those ho-sum, sing-song tracks. These are stunning downtown art songs that allow listeners to get "Wasted" (track 1, a sort of carpe-diem power ballad: "get wasted on love...life...with me") on something that's very right indeed.
The listenable lyrics are smart and entertaining; irony and humor are used to good effect. "Darkside" croons " I hope you're happy with your ordinary life/It's the wrong place/the wrong time/the darkside."
Most of these songs speak with a disarming directness that, combined with the purity of L.P.'s vocals, create something more than another college station sound.
It would seem unlikely that the beautiful bearer of the voice behind S.S.&A. is channeling loss, regret, and yearning (as opposed to, say, exhilaration, ecstasy, and ego). A winning ambisexual combination of pre-Raphaelite angel and the young Bruce Springsteen, L.P.'s performance style is uncalculated and unrestrained. With a face like a cameo portrait, this self-professed "big ol' d*ke" eludes easy categorization. Her voice's extraordinary technical and expressive qualities leave few unmoved and are best showcased here on the title track. Its simple refrain, "we all turn back in the end," is like a prism she's holding to the light and tilting as it shimmers between anguish, indignation, and acceptance.
L.P.'s live shows begin with (and sustain) a fierce energy that would seem to explain the lightening bolt image on the cover of a previous album, "Heart-
Shaped Scar." I heard the band open for Joe Grushecky at the Stone Pony (Asbury Park, NJ) in Feb. '06 and they were anything but overshadowed by the talent that came before and after them. Expect to be astonished!
Better than any Beyonce cd March 2, 2006
I purchased L.P.'s Suburban Sprawl & Alcohol two months ago and have yet to put it down! It's amazing!! Her voice is so razor-sharp and the music is very barlike: all in a good way. Her lyrics are heartfelt and true, and anyone can connect to songs like "Get Over Yourself" and "All I Have". Most are upbeat but there is still some monster rock ballads for that cool down time, such as "Cadillac Life." I truley believe whomever buys this cd will not be dissapointed. It is a one of a kind and so is L.P. She's a musical and lyrical genuis and I am so happy I bought Suburban Sprawl and Alcohol. I think you will be too!
OH MY GOD!! August 2, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having heard only two songs off of this cd, I felt compelled to buy it because I KNEW it was destined to be a favorite of mine. Well, LP did not disappoint!! This cd is one of the best I've heard in a long, long time. Her vocals are AMAZING! From the tender vocals of Nowhere and the title track, to the rockin' (and I mean ROCKIN"!!!), kick-ass tracks like Little Death and Heartless.
If you are a lover of killer vocals and great songwriting, do yourself a favor and pick up this disc...........NOW!! Especially if you dig females who rock!
Looking forward to the next one!
Michelle
glad I found them April 9, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I saw the band last night in Portland, Maine. What a great bunch of songs, with a strong lead singer with a great voice. The band is soild as a rock. Let's put it this way after getting home from the show, I am up buying both albums. No matter what you are into L.P. may be the cure. This band is going to make it all the way, mark my words.
BUY THIS CD....
SXSW story March 23, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Just got back from the South by Southwest conference where I saw a lot of great bands, but the only one that blew my mind was this group from NYC called L.P. (later found out that's the singer's name). On Friday night, my sister and I were getting ready to call it a night after watching way too many bands, and were looking for a cab when we happened to be walking past Coyote Ugly, of all places, and heard this amazing rock 'n roll coming out the doorway. We didn't say anything to each other, just wandered in like we were hypnotized. Watched the last 1/2 of their set with our jaws agape. It was like stumbling into a club in the 70s and happening upon T. Rex or Patti Smith Group or the Pretenders. We just couldn't believe what we were hearing. Easily the best band we saw at SXSW, and we saw some pretty damn good bands. They were just fantastic. L.P. is unbelievably talented and her band just rocks like hell. She sings every song like it's the last thing she'll ever do. My favorite song she did when I saw her play is actually a non-CD track available on her website (www.lprock.com) called My Cinderella - it's an instant classic, look under Downloads. I guess that will be on next album. This record is still great though, so many good songs. Even if you're really picky and not easily impressed, this will impress you. And your friends will thank you for turning them onto something great.
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