With music videos featuring cameos by Chloe Sevigny and other downtown PYTs, a frequent face in the hippest of look books, and my favorite former Beatrice (RIP) DJ, some are quick to pigeonhole Lissy Trullie as just another New York "It" girl. My advice for those naysayers is to give Trullie another chance.
Take Trullie's sold-out show last night at the Mercury Lounge as proof of her bona fide rock prowess. Lissy rocked the shit out of her killer blonde bob in her signature leather jacket, showcasing those throaty pipes and riffing it up like a mad woman on the guitar. With songs from her lovely Self-Taught Learner EP, like crowd favorite/Hot Chip cover "Ready for the Floor," Trullie was playful and adorably in-your-face, the opposite of her painfully hip rep. When a confused fan insisted she sing Ladyhawke's "Paris is Burning", Lissy declined with a smile: "That's not my song."
But Trullie, who has admitted that she used to hate the sound of her own voice, is at her best when she shuts her eyes and lets her haunting falsetto take over, namely on heavy tracks "Self-Taught Learner" and "Billy" (who apparently was in the audience). It's moments like these where she shines, and where all those Edie Sedgwick-meets-Courtney Love mumblings go out the window. Her full-length album can come no sooner.
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