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July 26, 2024

Lizzie Karr: “Honey”

By: Jack Anderson

Yesterday we praised Queen Serene for their ability to pivot away from pigeonholing their own sound. So in that same sentiment of dodging predictability, today we’re calling on another Austinite who’s kept us guessing: Lizzie Karr.

With a range of inspirations that span from D’Angelo to Ani DiFranco, you can already tell from the get-go that Lizzie’s got a lot to offer in terms of widening sonic horizons. And now, a half decade out from Karr’s summer 2019 start and a mere year since last July’s In Real Life EP, this singer-songwriter’s finally earned some well deserved success that’s reflected in recent streaming numbers, especially last October’s “Bitter Lemon” and early March’s “Light On”.

But we prefaced all this by preparing you for a hard left turn, so here it is. Where late June’s “One Woman Army” corralled itself around Texas country soul, Lizzie Karr’s third single of the year “Honey” drips with turn-of-the-millennium nectar and buzzes around the same beehive of blues rock that gave The White Stripes so much grit. As a disdainful tale of a loud-mouthed attention-seeker, “Honey” sure does have some extra Machiavellian oomph against our current political backdrop. But it stays timeless, because just as folks like Honey will continue to spout the same lies over and over, there’ll always be people like the song’s namesake trying to stick out in society where you’d rather they just stick it somewhere out of sight.


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