March 4, 2008

Meet...

Sarah Lipstate

Sarah Lipstate, the newest member of Parts & Labor. An avant-garde guitarist and general noisemaker (check out the double-neck bow action in the pic above) who's been recording/performing under the name Noveller, Lipstate's addition is the 2nd change (the 1st being new drummer Joe Wong) to the band's line-up since recording Mapmaker, one of my favorite albums of last year. Though I lament the loss of potential CF (I'll need to read his Public Enemy 33 1/3 book before rendering a final judgment) Christopher Weingarten behind the kit, I'm excited to hear the sounds the new members will add to BJ Warshaw and Dan Friel's already devastating squall. According to a post on P&L's Myspace blog, "We're now a four piece band trying to sound like a six piece instead of three piece band trying to sound like a five piece. Know what I mean?"

mp3: Parts & Labor, "Sugar Kane" (Sonic Youth cover, from 2004 tribute album Confuse Yr Idols)

1 comment:

parallelliott said...

she looks like she shreds face-ripppp