Well it's summertime again. One of the things I love about summer is that it gives me an excuse to waste away listening to sappy music and dreaming, if little else. Lemuria's The First Collection provides an excellent year-round soundtrack to dreamers, poets, space cadets, and other varieties of hopeless romantics, but I myself find it best fitted for summer. In addition, I'm beginning to wonder if there's anything that Lemuria's frontwoman, Sheena Ozzella can't do. The First Collection is practically driven by Sheena's incredibly catchy and offbeat guitar riffs. Even more impressive in my opinion, are the vocals, which are sung so honestly and so forwardly that it is impossible to believe that anything less than one hundred percent of the band's energy goes into their songs. This impression is even stronger in their live performance, which I would easily say is amongst the best I've ever seen. Onstage, Sheena creates a unity and sense of positivity that Ian MacKaye or Ray Cappo could only dream about. Everybody in the audience, be they edge or non-edge, crusties, geeks, hardcore kids, and others, is absolutely euthoric, smiling, singing along, and dancing around. Do yourself and see Lemuria live if you haven't already. And check out this record too. It's great.
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