Out Today / Pizzagirl releases zany, colourful debut album ‘first timer’ via Heist or Hit

PIZZAGIRL (aka Liam Brown) releases zany, colourful, character-driven debut album ‘first timer’ today via Heist or Hit, on which he’s built an off-kilter, immersive world for his flamboyant altar-ego

Photo Credit: Neelam Khan Vela

Pizzagirl – ‘first timer’https://orcd.co/pizzagirl 

“Blending the AM-radio aesthetic of Ariel Pink with FM-fidelity 80s pop” The Guardian“long lost soundtrack to an 80s John Hughes film” The Sunday Times “Pizzagirl makes music that sounds like all your fave 80s movies” Noisey“Ambitious ’80s-tinged pop” NME“this album takes you through the paces, experiments with different toppings, tells stories through personas that are both relatable and fantastical” DORK

“as convincing a ressurection of the 80s as Drive’s soundtrack, but suggest the movie was directed by John Hughes” Classic Pop“Pizzagirl fulfils promise of early singles on one of the strongest debut LPs of the year” The Line of Best Fit“sweetly bridges the gap between classic 80s synth-pop and contemporary indie” DIY

Pizzagirl, or Liam Brown to give his off-screen name, has fine-tuned his hyperactive DIY-pop to an esoteric art. The result is technicolour debut album ‘first timer’, out now via Heist or Hit (Her’s, Baywaves, Honey Moon). It’s a triumph in world-building and split-personality genre jumping that’ll have you bopping, laughing and crying before the closing credits. Introverted in daily life, Liam uses Pizzagirl as a flamboyant alter-ego – the tracks across the album are different costumes for him to wear, reflecting different moods and emotions, expressed as loose vignettes tied together as a complete whole.

Sometimes songs are autobiographical to varying degrees, of his own life and sentiments, and sometimes they’re entirely fanciful. The outcome is an uncanny but internally coherent alternative reality with Pizzagirl as the off-kilter protagonist.

Across 10 tracks he connects the dots between 80s John Hughes soundtracks, the oddball-pop flair of Ariel Pink, and New Wave icons David Byrne, DEVO. He also takes cues from a similar bedroom-pop space, defined by his own rules, as Clairo, Gus Dapperton or Brad Stank. The approach exemplifies a typical pop cultural magpie approach of Gen Z’ers.

First single ‘body biology’ is inspired by the bubble, fizz and pop of campy science flicks, album opener ‘ball’s gonna keep on rollin’ follows a roller-coaster search for showbiz and ‘daytrip’ juxtaposes a colourful, jokey sonic template against dark themes of spiking someone with hallucinogens.

Irresistible earworm ‘dennis’, and ‘yesterday’ are a sunny, lackadaisical end to side-A, teaming up with side B opener ‘library’ to provide a chirpy central trio. ‘thispartysux’ is an homage to Kelly Clarkson before ‘ugly’ and ‘cut and paste’ bring the tone down, before the blissful ‘goodnight’, a duet with South Korean singer Aseul closes the book.

Champions of Pizzagirl at press come in the form of national broadsheets in The Guardian or The Sunday Times, pop-culture touchstones in Noisey (Vice), i-D, Clash and Highsnobiety as well as cutting edge indie stalwarts NME, DIY, DORK and The Line of Best Fit. Radio wise too DJs are lining up to call themselves fans, with the UK’s most trusted ears in Annie Mac, Jack Saunders and Huw Stephens at BBC Radio 1 and Lauren Laverne, Shaun Keaveny and Radcliffe & Maconie at BBC 6 Music all backing his tracks.

The live show is part one-man band exhibition, and part demob happy TV host veering dangerously off-script. Pizzagirl flicks easily between danceable funky pop jams, cheesy karaoke and touching, emotive song-writing, all whilst delivering surreal jokes and anecdotes. This show will be taken around the UK and Europe this November in support of the record (dates below).first timer is out now via Heist or Hit.

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first timer Tracklisting

1. ball’s gonna keep on rollin’
2. daytrip
3. body biology
4. dennis
5. yesterday
6. library
7. thispartysux
8. ugly
9. cut and paste
10. goodnight (feat. Aseul)

Live Dates14th October – Rough Trade, Bristol (in-store)15th October – Rough Trade, Nottingham (in-store)21st November – Auster-Club, Berlin22nd November – Yuca, Cologne23rd November – Le Pop-Up du Label, Paris24th November – Upstairs at Paradiso, Amsterdam26th November – The Shacklewell Arms, London27th November – Yes (Basement), Manchester28th November – Phase One, Liverpool30th November – Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds

Press Enquiries: Lewis Lloyd-Kinnings at Lewis@supercatpr.co.uk or 07922 007 049