Lisa Crawley Releases Brilliant New EP - NEW GIRL SYNDROME

NZ-born, LA-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lisa Crawley is tomorrow releasing her new EP, NEW GIRL SYNDROME - a captivating collection of songs, which seamlessly blends nostalgic melodies with thought-provoking lyricism and catchy hooks.

The EP contains the new single, ‘Call It A Night’, which is a reflective and haunting Americana-meets-indie-pop tune about new beginnings.

“‘Call It A Night’ is about having the self-awareness to know when it's time to call it quits, and despite the sadness that may come from closing the chapter, there's a liberating feeling that can result from knowing when you've done your dash. It's not about being remorseful or having regrets, but the process of writing the resignation letter and turning the page to the next chapter,” says the celebrated artist.

NEW GIRL SYNDROME was produced, mixed and mastered by the multiple-GRAMMY Award winning Tenacious D member John Spiker, who has worked with the likes of Beck, Nine Inch Nails, Jack Black and Kyle Gass.

“After playing at a small dinner party, I met John Spiker with his bandmate Jack Black who turned - what was meant to be mellow background music - into a Queen singalong! John and I stayed in touch and he ended up producing, mixing and mastering the EP as well as playing the majority of the guitar and bass on the record. We recorded this over the course of 2024 as John is the bassist and tour manager for Tenacious D and was also in demand as a composer for movie projects with Jack Black.”

Talented musicians Mark Stepro on drums (The Wallflowers, Sara Bareilles, Jackson Browne), Drew Taubenfeld (Kacey Musgraves, Leon Bridges) on pedal steel; Benny Lipson (trombone), and Jimmy Corimer, who plays the guitar solo on ‘The Gatekeeper’ also bring their magic to NEW GIRL SYNDROME, which skillfully traverses a range of sonic landscapes and genres, from indie-pop and indie-alt, to Americana and alt-folk. Lisa also arranged clarinets, which are featured on three songs from the EP.

Alongside the new single ‘Call It A Night’, the EP contains the already released singles ‘What You Can Do’ (which has charted on 95bFM top 10, as well as Radioscope Alt charts) and ‘The Gatekeeper’. Fans will be pleased to know there is also a previously unheard track on the record, the intimate ‘Don’t Wanna Be’ - a Randy Newman-esque diary entry.

It makes for a compelling collection of songs, which Lisa describes as “familiar yet fresh, combining nostalgic chord progressions with catchy melodies; with a variety of instrumentation including everything from clarinets, omnichords, pedal steel combined with the more conventional piano, drums, bass and guitars.”

Lisa Crawley is a four-time APRA Silver Scroll Award nominee, who has shared the stage with some of the greats; opening for Suzanne Vega, John Mayer, Jools Holland, Paul Weller and Simply Red.

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