Pizzagirl combines bedroom-pop with 80s exuberance on new single ‘gymnasium’
Liverpool bedroom-pop artist Pizzagirl releases the second episode of his season 2 EP, the exuberant new single gymnasium
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Pizzagirl ~ ‘gymnasium’
“Pizzagirl continues to mine retro excellence on ‘gymnasium’” Highsnobiety
“Pizzagirl makes music that sounds like all your fave 80s movies” Noisey
“Pizzagirl returns with ambitious ’80s-tinged pop” NME
“wonderfully breezy escapism” DIY
Pizzagirl has been re-commissioned for season 2 after wowing audiences with his own unique brand of emotional electro bedroom-pop. That’s right, everyone’s favourite 80s aping audio-visual auteur will be hitting a network near you soon, courtesy once again of Manchester boutique label Heist or Hit (Her’s, Honey Moon) – who’ll be releasing his new EP in November.
Following the first taste of this new collection highschool, Pizzagirl, or Liam Brown as he is down on the register, delivers another 80s inflected bop in gymnasium:
“Sweatband ON! Post summer chub OFF! Your boy is back and as ripped as ever, ready to pump some rock iron and deadlift some melody weights. Make sure to tune into channel two for the second episode of season 2: GYMNASIUM!”
From the confines of his bedroom studio (AKA The Beatzzeria) in Liverpool, Pizzagirl’s musical mind wanders through the decades and over the Atlantic. Capturing the wistful, romantic nostalgia and coming-of-age sentiment in classic Brat Pack era film it’s as though Pizzagirl has planted himself as a character in a John Hughes screenplay. VHS beats, digi-percussion and retro synths encase Pizzagirl’s characterful storytelling, all constantly propelled forward as a night-time run between spiralling car headlights.
season 2 is the follow up to acclaimed debut EP An Extended Play, released at the top of the year. This earned Pizzagirl numerous not-so-secret admirers. Champions came in the form of Huw Stephens, Annie Mac, Lauren Laverne and more across the airwaves, as well as DIY, Highsnobiety, Wonderland plus dozens of others in the blogosphere. With a tour supporting Her’s up and down the land to boot, there are multiple levels to the ever-growing platform from which Pizzagirl can now dive further into the cosmos.
He maintains his flair for channelling through his music and visuals the extroversion of 80s electronica, late 90s internet culture and US East Coast sad-indie introversion, calling to mind the likes of Porches, Clairo or Gus Dapperton on the one hand, and Phil Collins or Janet Jackson on the other.
Overall it’s a small operation. With the help of a thrown together flatpack mini studio, Pizzagirl writes, records and produces all of his music and visuals from the comfort of his home. His best mate shoots his videos and his mum takes his press shots.
Through October and December Pizzagirl will be taking his show on the road with a series of UK tour dates, standing solo on stage, accompanied only by his trusty laptop, guitar and sequencer, displaying the lonesome idiosyncrasies of an introvert married with the larger than life extroverted nature implied by his eccentric, zany and often pensive pop tunes.
gymnasium is being released by Heist or Hit on September 26th, and is the second single taken from Pizzagirl’s season 2 EP, slated for release in November.
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Live Dates
3rd Oct – Oporto, Leeds
6th Oct – Neighbourhood, Manchester
10th Oct – The Lexington, London (w/ Litany)
11th Oct – Moth Club, London (w/ Litany)
20th Oct – SWN Festival, Cardiff
1st Dec – Sound Basement, Liverpool
3rd Dec – The Louisiana, Bristol
4th Dec – The Chameleon Arts Café, Nottingham
5th Dec – The Hope and Ruin, Brighton
