Lacy Rose
Austin, Texas, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2013 | INDIE
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After brief stop at Jimmy Johns where I heroically devoured two full subs, I made my way to Red River to experience my third festival of the day: Convergence XIX. A national meet-up for the Goth community, who, by popular vote, selected Austin as this year’s site, Convergence is more conference and less festival. As predicted, there were lots of guys in leather boots, girls in corsets, black hair dye all around, and I was the only one wearing a yellow shirt.
Inside Beerland, I found Lacy Rose in full Victorian gown and powdered wig, playing operatic ghost songs on a harpsichord with a small classical ensemble behind her.
“You’re the best audience I’ve ever had,” gushed the local between haunted melodies. “It’s because we’re all from the same soul – the same dark soul.”
Still high from Reggae Fest, I got a little creeped out and escaped next door to Elysium where lanky rocker William Faith and his Chicago-based concern the Bellwether Syndicate pummeled the audience with some muscular Gothic rock. Next, guitar and synth NYC trio Led Er Est unleashed an untailored swell of psychedelic drone guitar, analog blips, and house beats. - Austin Chronicle
After brief stop at Jimmy Johns where I heroically devoured two full subs, I made my way to Red River to experience my third festival of the day: Convergence XIX. A national meet-up for the Goth community, who, by popular vote, selected Austin as this year’s site, Convergence is more conference and less festival. As predicted, there were lots of guys in leather boots, girls in corsets, black hair dye all around, and I was the only one wearing a yellow shirt.
Inside Beerland, I found Lacy Rose in full Victorian gown and powdered wig, playing operatic ghost songs on a harpsichord with a small classical ensemble behind her.
“You’re the best audience I’ve ever had,” gushed the local between haunted melodies. “It’s because we’re all from the same soul – the same dark soul.”
Still high from Reggae Fest, I got a little creeped out and escaped next door to Elysium where lanky rocker William Faith and his Chicago-based concern the Bellwether Syndicate pummeled the audience with some muscular Gothic rock. Next, guitar and synth NYC trio Led Er Est unleashed an untailored swell of psychedelic drone guitar, analog blips, and house beats. - Austin Chronicle
The trend for 'new cabaret' shows no signs of abating. Burlesque clubs, fascinators and spooky ditties sung on creaky pianos are seemingly everywhere. Few do it well and even fewer manage to make it their own. Lacy Rose is one of the latter, an act who sounds like a genuine artist rather than a pastiche of the genre she is so very talented in.
Hailing from Texas (but sounding anything but) her debut five-track ep 'Ghost Music' is inspired by the past. Keys and strings carry vocals Kate Bush would be proud of, while subtle brass add body to her spectral stories. Tracks take suitably gothic subjects - tragic romance, blinded saints, love lost across the sea and vampiric fantasies - all presented with ethereal, but very genuine, vintage melancholy.
The mood Lacy Rose creates is one of being transported back in time, swept away in a bleak Shelly-esque romance. With songs like 'The Ballad Of Polly Peachum' and 'Creature Of The Night' she faultlessly, and almost effortlessly, captures the beautifully macabre sound so many are trying to reproduce. 'Ghost Music' is just that. Haunting. - Intravenous Magazine
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Ghost Music (released October, 2012)
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Though singing before she could speak and writing music for much of her life, Lacy Rose began taking shape as an artist while a music student in New Orleans. Her haunted and often bizarre day-to-day experiences led to an outpouring of creative energy, leading to new music that showed influences of Baroque arias, gothic horror, and dramatic depictions of tragic and eternal love.
Lacy currently resides in Austin, Texas, where she continues to shape and perform her art. She released her first album, the EP-length Ghost Music, in October of 2012. The work is a succinct collection of original art songs regaling the listener with tales of tragedy, vengeance, longing, and madness.
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