世界が認める才能。新星シンガーソングライター= Lizzy McAlpine(リジー・マカルパイン)が放つメジャーデビュー・アルバム『Older』

1999年 フィラデルフィア近郊生まれのシンガーソングライター、Lizzy McAlpine(リジー・マカルパイン)。YouTube等にオリジナル曲やカバー曲を投稿し知名度を上げ、2020年デビュー・スタジオ・アルバムをリリース。評論家の称賛を浴び、2022年セカンド・アルバムからのシングル「Ceilings」がスマッシュ・ヒット。2023年RCAレコードと契約し、今回メジャーデビュー・アルバムとなる『Older』をリリースする。「このアルバムは自身の成長の集大成であり、アーティストとしてどうありたいのか、この3年間でどんな人間になったかを最も正直な姿で映し出している」とリジーは語る。アルバムのレコーディングはLAで行われ、リジー本人と Mason Stoops、Scary PocketsのRyan Lerman、Jeremy Most (Norah Jones)、Tony Berg (Taylor Swift)がプロデュースを担当した。今作は前作とはやり方を変え、バンド全員がひとつの部屋に集まり同時録音された。その空間で作り出された音はシンプルながらも深みのある至極の14曲となっている。

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2024/05/17）

On her third album, 2024s Older, singer/songwriter Lizzy McAlpine catches you off guard, crafting songs that are as lyrical and delicately rendered as they are affecting. If you havent listened to McAlpine, you might be surprised by the emotional weight and nuanced musical sophistication at play in her work. While sharing the same creative musical space as Taylor Swift and Maggie Rogers, McAlpine has quietly carved out her own place in the contemporary pop landscape, crafting intimate, folky songs that sound like well-honed diary entries. Its a deeply enveloping vibe that made both her 2020 debut and her 2022 follow-up such unexpected delights, and she digs further into that vibe on Older. She also digs deeper musically, working closely with her collaborators, who include Mason Stoops, Ryan Lerman, Jeremy Most, and Tony Berg crafting beautifully attenuated piano and acoustic guitar arrangements. She also weaves in other unexpected instrumental sounds, framing her hushed, yet resonant vocals in dreamy pedal steel guitar on "The Elevator," woody reeds on "All Falls Down," and orchestral strings on "Broken Glass. " Though the term "break-up album" feels reductive when describing the nuanced emotions at play on Older, theres definitely a sense that McAlpine is working through some heartbreak. She walks the listener through her memories, setting you up to laugh with a cute romantic moment that hides a deeper wound. Its a poignantly dichotomous vibe she conjures throughout Older, as on "I Guess," where she returns to a warm moment out somewhere with her lover, singing, "Ill tell a lie just to bring you home/We dance together/Youre not that good." Later, after theyve gone home, she reveals, "Now I am sick, and Youre probably drunk/Youre saying things and they sound like love." Its that sound of love, the fantasy vs. the reality of a relationship, that fascinates McAlpine and makes Older such a lovely and bittersweet experience. ~ Matt Collar

Rovi