Impose TV: Lady Lazarus, "What It's Like"

Lady Lazarus, "What It's Like" Video by Matthew Naquin

Lady Lazarus's "What It's Like" is a sparse and patient piano song. Consider it a soothing and nurturing alter ego or her friendly ghost persona, presiding opposite her role as a eerie-rockist in The Marshmallow Ghosts. The video creates the effect of walking a country road through a slideshow of Polaroids, which is in step with her hand at alto-keys. She sings of longing, of leaves falling in Brooklyn and a boy whose dreams are stifled by his mother's calls. Lady Lazarus recently transplanted in Oakland, which adds a 3,500 miles of disconnection to her song's setting, but with FMLY fest Oakland edition in two months, hopefully she'll be a little less lonely in the Bay.

Lady Lazarus' Mantic is out now for free download on Apartment Life.

Posted on October 31, 2011. More on: lady lazarus, mantic, apartment life, what its like