Lady Lazarus

Lady Lazarus is the solo project of Melissa Ann Sweat, a singer-songwriter, artist, poet, and creative writer from San Jose, California now living in Los Angeles, known for her enchanting and minimalist songs for mainly voice and piano. Her music touches on dream pop and experimental folk, and has been compared to Cat Power, Smog/Bill Callahan, Joanna Newsom, Grouper, and Daniel Johnston, among others, while nodding to composers like Philip Glass and Erik Satie. Lady Lazarus received breakthrough press last year for her debut album, Mantic, including a 7.

review from Pitchfork, and praise from Stereogum, One Thirty BPM, the Journal of Music, and many others here and abroad.

Taken from the Sylvia Plath poem of the same name, Lady Lazarus began in 2008 when Melissa started teaching herself keyboard, and writing and recording songs while living in San Francisco. Inspired by a cross-country train trip, she moved to Savannah, Georgia in the fall of 2010 and toured along the East Coast and Southeast in support of her self-released debut. Lady Lazarus released new music in summer 2012 as part of Graveface Records' Charity Release Series along with Mount Eerie, Xiu Xiu, Mike Watt, and other artists; she also played the CMJ Music Festival in NYC in October.

Lady Lazarus will be releasing a new album, All My Love In Half Light, on 1/29/13.

Official Website: http://www.ladylazarus.net
Music available @ http://ladylazarus.bandcamp.com and through major digital distributors.

Selected Press for Mantic (2011):
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14952-mantic/
http://stereogum.com/615352/lady-lazarus-sick-child-video-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
http://onethirtybpm.com/reviews/album-review-lady-lazarus-mantic/
http://journalofmusic.com/article/1199