Lizzy Borden

If you've followed LIZZY BORDEN you've learned to come prepared for the unexpected. but nobody was prepared for Lizzy's need to grow as a performance artist. when dialing into "My Midnight Things", a bold and shifty glitter rock album with roots dug from seventies rock and moody goth-pop. What's remarkable from the outset of this album is how sharp Lizzy sounds, and how operatic the title track rings. With a touch of QUEEN, a dash of Meat Loaf "My Midnight Things" rolls like a champion. Its hazy synth spritzes carry into the catchier-than-hell "Obsessed with You", "The Perfect Poison" and "Run Away with Me". this album is hardly a standard LIZZY BORDEN disc, "Long May They Haunt Us" effortlessly mating THE BEACH BOYS and goth with a charming sugary swing. "The Scar Across My Heart" finds Lizzy and the band taking on pop punk, but it's happily more akin to REDD KROSS. "The Perfect Poison" soars with a groove so delicious you'd nearly say yes to a cyanide chaser. Lizzy Borden himself stands tall with each building bar, whipping King Diamond-worthy shrieks at will. This song is major league stuff with each tick. "Our Love Is God" being the heaviest monster of the album, its proto crunch ushers Lizzy Borden's whirligig notes through its new-gen mash. And with the pop elevations of "We Belong to the Shadows" all surprisingly well suits him. "My Midnight Things" is smart and exciting, it's stellar that Lizzy Borden challenges himself like this. Author: Ray Van Horn, Jr.