LIZZY BORDEN – My Midnight Things

Lizzy Borden was a busy man on new album My Midnight Things. In addition to co-producing with founding drummer Joey Scott, he did all the writing, all the guitar and bass work, some of the keys, and all of the vocal tracks–all eight thousand, seven hundred and fifty-six of them (a rough estimate). Definitely the most striking aspect of My Midnight Things, Lizzy’s voice is tracked and layered for maximum emotional effect on the album’s ten songs, each of which is a rumination on some aspect of love. About ten different Lizzys can be heard on the opening title track, only six or so Lizzys on follow-up “Obsessed With You”, but then a couple dozen Lizzys show up for the album’s best song, “Long May They Haunt Us” (Lizzy breaks out the corpse paint for the video).

The resultant sound created by this festival of Lizzys is somewhere between classic eighties hair metal and Queen, with some power metal and Goth elements for flavor. Borden and Scott are to be commended for the masterful production and tasteful way they weave the many vocal tracks into such a lush sonic tapestry. Their technique works as well on the rockers as well as the more power balladic tunes like the deeply emotive “My Midnight Things (Reprise)”, which features the vocals of several Lizzys accompanied by piano and keys.

This is the sixth Lizzy Borden studio album, and the first in eleven years; it might not rock as hard as 2007’s Appointment With Death, but it is an intriguing sonic experiment, highly listenable and not quite like anything else you’ll hear this year.

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