Liz Pappademas - Rock Record (2020)

Rock Record is Liz Pappademas’ fourth album and her first in almost ten years. These songs were written over the course of the last three years, primarily in two rooms— a one-bedroom apartment above the garage of a house in the hills below Lake Hollywood, and the garage itself, where the piano was.

“I could open the garage door,” Pappademas says, “go in, play for a little bit, and then there was a ladder leading up from the garage, to a tiny not-even-four-foot-tall door you kind of crawled in when you were done with your practice session.”

Gradually, in these two spaces, Rock Record started to take shape. Ten songs about characters on one precipice or another, caught between the urge to retreat and the pull of the unknown.