PRESS
“Mantic thrives on the sense of being alone with the last voice in the world. Lots of people use music to try and escape their living rooms, but Lady Lazarus seems more interested in inviting us into hers.” – Pitchfork
“Her work’s hushed and homemade, ambitious, affecting, and oddly polished in its specificity.” – Stereogum
“Like listening to the upcoming James Blake record, Mantic shows the magic that space can create. And Lady Lazarus, whose name likely comes from a Sylvia Plath poem, knows how to use lack of sound to accentuate the actual sounds.” – Beats Per Minute
“…listening to someone like Lady Lazarus, we pay much less heed to the fidelity of the instrument. As well as giving us rich, chaotic and experimental musical experiences, lo-fi music affirms for us the relativity of aesthetic appreciation, an insight as revelatory as it is straightforward.” – The Journal of Music
“The pairing of Lady Lazarus’s looped piano drone and Katherina Lackner’s study of circular motion as social and individual human nature is one of the most beautiful videos I have seen this year.”
-Tome To The Weather Machine
“Fans of shadowy dream-pop will be pleased to discover San Jose’s Lady Lazarus… Her voice is lovely, and nothing is over- or undersold. With slight drags, hesitations, and lunges on the piano, she wrings emotional volumes from that endlessly cycling scale. …It makes this moment of uncanny stillness a shelter you want to stay inside. It’s really slight, and more than ample.” -Pitchfork track
Additional Selected Press
Paste Magazine.com – 40 Musicians and Their New Year’s Resolutions (Jan. 1, 2012)
This Music Wins – Top 50 albums of 2011 (Dec. 30, 2011)
The Deli SF – Album Download: Lady Lazarus’ Mantic (Dec. 21, 2011)
Wears the Trousers – Watch two new Lady Lazarus videos (Dec. 17, 2011)
The Bay Bridged – Videos: Lady Lazarus (Dec. 15, 2011)
Beats Per Minute – Videos: Lady Lazarus (Dec. 14, 2011)
Your Music Today – Lady Lazarus “Kurosawa’s Dreams and Me” (Dec. 14, 2011)
Largehearted Boy – Daily Downloads (Nov. 29, 2011)
The Bay Bridged – Lady Lazarus “The Eye in the Eye of the Storm” (Nov. 28, 2011)
Smoke Don’t Smoke – FMLY Fest line-up (Oct. 31, 2011)
IMPOSE – Lady Lazarus, “What It’s Like” Video by Matthew Naquin (Oct. 31, 2011)
IFC.com – Exclusive premiere: The Marshmallow Ghosts’ “Corpse Reviver No. 2″ (Oct. 27, 2011)
Prefix Mag.com – The Marshmallow Ghosts: “Trick” (NSFW Video) Prefix Premiere (Oct. 20, 2011)
Miojo Indie – Lady Lazarus: “What It’s Like” (Oct. 17, 2011)
Your Music Today – Lady Lazarus “What It’s Like” (Oct. 14, 2011)
Wheel Scene – Video: Lady Lazarus – ‘What It’s Like’ (Oct. 14, 2011)
Pitchfork – “What It’s Like” Video Premiere (Oct. 13, 2011)
Lost at E Minor – Lady Lazarus Covers Daniel Johnston’s “Story of an Artist” (Sept. 28, 2011)
mySpoonful – Lady Lazarus feature (Sept. 7, 2011)
Wears the Trousers – Free music Monday: Lady Lazarus (July 11, 2011)
Beats Per Minute – MP3: Lady Lazarus “Story of an Artist” (Daniel Johnston cover) (July 6, 2011)
Warmer Climes – WARMER MIXTAPES #397 | by Melissa Ann Sweat [Lady Lazarus] (July 1, 2011)
Beats Per Minute – Video: Lady Lazarus “Took in My Diamond Heart” (May 14, 2011)
PopMatters – Lady Lazarus – “Took in My Diamond Heart” Video (PopMatters Premiere) (May 12, 2011)
Skirt Magazine – 24/7 Melissa Sweat (May 1, 2011)
Wiretap Music – Lady Lazarus is comin’ home (March 31, 2011)
Bowlegs Lookout – Lady Lazarus (April 3, 2011)
Beats Per Minute – Video: Lady Lazarus “The Eye in the Eye of the Storm” (March 19, 2011)
Beats Per Minute – Interview: Lady Lazarus (Feb. 10, 2011)
Savannah Morning News – Lady Lazarus rises to success (Feb. 3, 2011)
Mixtape Muse – Listen: Lady Lazarus (Jan. 21, 2011)
Largehearted Boy – Try It Before You Buy It (Jan. 18, 2011)
The KEXP Blog – Out This Week (Jan. 18, 2011)
Sonic Masala – Hits from the Box #3, Lady Lazarus “The Eye in the Eye of the Storm” (Jan. 16, 2011)
The Pigeon Post – Lady Lazarus (Jan. 14, 2011)
Prefix Magazine.com – Lady Lazarus: “Sick Child” Video (Jan. 12, 2011)
Tympanogram – MP3: Introducing Lady Lazarus “Sick Child” (Jan. 4, 2011)
Connect Savannah – “DIY not?” (Dec. 14, 2010)
The Bay Bridged – Lady Lazarus: Live on One Night Music, Upcoming Shows (June 11, 2010)
Wears the Trousers – Lady Lazarus: Home Recordings EP (Nov. 24, 2009)
