![]() "No one sounds like her," Fair told the Times. Led by the hauntingly plainspoken "The Way It Really Is," the bloodied-but-unbowed sentiments of "Underdog" and the gently empathetic "Kick Start," Cake and Pie reveals a songwriter and artist who has matured in impressive fashion. The result should delight the legions who made "Stay" a number one hit and landed Firecracker's "I Do" in the Top 20. The result finds Loeb collaborating with a number of high-profile songwriters, including Glen Ballard, Randy Scruggs and current beau Dweezil Zappa. Ron Fair, the former RCA executive who was responsible for placing "Stay" in Reality Bites, was named president of Geffen's sister label A&M last year, and brought Loeb over to A&M for Cake and Pie. It's that kind of whimsy that Loeb's fans have grown to cherish, via her two albums on Geffen Records, Tails (1995) and Firecracker (1997). "Maybe we could get it sponsored by Viking, get cake-mix boxes with my picture on them." "We could make a video featuring the pie-oven roadie, get it on the - my favorite TV channel. "I've been talking to a friend who's a chef in Arizona with two restaurants," she told the Los Angeles Times. And in keeping with the food theme, Loeb is considering baking a pie onstage during each tour stop. The singer/songwriter, who came to fame with her song "Stay (I Missed You)" in the film Reality Bites, has relocated from New York to Los Angeles, where she has found plenty of work doing animation and commercial voice-overs as well as making guest appearances on The Nanny and The Drew Carey Show and appearing in the 1999 horror film House on Haunted Hill.īut while her music career may have been on the back burner during that time, it has not gone stale: Loeb's third album, entitled Cake and Pie, comes out on February 26. While it doesn’t sound like some musical evolution on her part, nostalgia makes it a win with its simplicity and familiarity.Although it's been four years since we last heard from her, Lisa Loeb has hardly been idle. It’s just Loeb, her guitar and her classic crooning voice. With such soothing songs, it almost hints to listeners how Loeb is so popular in Children’s music too.Ī Simple Trick to Happiness holds on to that Lisa Loeb sound we know and love. The album ends on “Wonder,” which lives up to its name with its curious tone and up-lifting piano melody. Soft, acoustic melodies skim a very fine line that can tread into country-crossover territory and in “For the Birch” we get that almost-country sound with its specific emotional tune and storytelling-like lyrics such as, “they almost lost it all/ when the winter came/ she started over/ seasons change,” and, “kick off your Mary Janes and coat and gloves and hang your hat/ it doesn’t matter where/ come sit beside me/ we can talk about it/ wish that I could go back there.” We get a taste of a slightly different pop-side of Loeb on track “Another Day” as it features a piano-based melody versus her usual staple guitar sound, though, her very recognizable voice still shines through in every note. ![]() ![]() “This Is My Life” is a track that sounds like it was ripped right out of a 2000s romantic comedy or coming-of-age film, with its early ’00s pop twang, yet somehow it has a moody quality and underlying relatability that helps it fit right into the current indie-pop universe. That classic Loeb sound continues in song “Skeleton,” and is accompanied by her illustrative words like, “if I’m gonna be honest/ you’re not the one to tell/ put it in my pocket/ I’ll keep it to myself,” and, “if we meet as friends again/ can we pretend we were something then/ tell your new friends where we’ve been/ that we’re not just skeletons.” This kind of descriptive wording is a trait that the majority of pop music has lost over the years. The song feels like dipping back into the late ’90s/early 2000s pop with its gentle acoustics and both artists’ distinct, but calming vocal tones. Loeb opens the album on the track “Doesn’t It Feel Good” featuring another long-time acoustic pop-pro Michelle Branch. ![]()
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