NYC-based Lover By Proxy” which is released today. The moody track is the second single from their sophomore studio album Dear Onda Wahl out this fall which was produced by renowned producers David Bowie, Tin Machine) and David Bowie, Prince). Lizzie & The Makers have announced a handful of NYC area gigs as a warm up to their full US tour to be announced soon (dates below).https://youtu.be/IfdPFAy9JlE”‘Lover By Proxy’ is perhaps my favorite one on the album. The creation of this one was the most organic,” says frontwomanGreg McMullen, a “prolific morning meditator” who often sends her guitar ideas for riffs and grooves in the wee hours.
The riff that would eventually become “Lover By Proxy” immediately spoke to her and she already had “the perfect lyrics to match” in her lyrical chapbook. “The melody poured out of me in minutes,” she tells Glide. “Our rhythm section (Steve Williams) added the perfect stomp and punch backdrop almost instantly. And our keys genius  Mario J. McNulty, Lizzie & The Makers will release their formidable new sophomore studio album”Lover By Proxy” being preceded by the spellbinding “Magic River,” the melody was written after Lizzie went on a David Coverdale binge. “Post-Whitesnake listening party, I wrote the melody and found these lyrics fit perfectly,” she laughs.
The story is about struggle and fighting to stay above water despite challenges we face in life.” The grimy blues rock track  “Les Idiots,” to certain characters posing in her hometown NYC’s East Village and Lower East Side.  “Tell Her” is a more hopeful heartbroken song. The trippy atmospheric “Dear Onda Wahl” was written during a slow work day behind the bar while Edwards gazed at a mounted deer head and asked it for love advice: “Deer on the wall, what’s the point of it all?” McMullen often invented creative titles for their work-in-progress songs and christened it “Dear Onda Wahl.”  Recorded at Mission Sound Recording in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, LP Dear Onda Wahl threads rootsy, shoegazey, psychedelic layers throughout its core. “Though influenced by traditional music genres, we were also heavily influenced by David Lynch and Lizzie Edwards, guitaristBrett Bass (Steve Williams (Rob Clores (Lover By Proxy” is now out on all DSPs. Dear Onda Wahl will be released Fall 2021.The Cutting Room NYC, NY at 7:30pm*6/26:  “Industry City Grease Trap at Hometown BBQ Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY 6pm *7/8:  Windamere Mattituck, NY 6pm #7/9:  The Cutting Room NYC, NY at 7pm*8/29:  Ram’s Head Inn Shelter Island Heights, NY 6pm #* denotes Lizzie Edwards solo# denotes Lizzie Edwards and Greg McMullen
