You have to wonder if Lisa knows. Somewhere out there, a chance encounter at a Spiderbait gig became a full track on a Melbourne double album, and the woman at the center of it may have no clue. That framing alone makes “The Lisa Song” feel different before it even starts.
Jason McKee wrote this one from a real, specific place. The sting of being asked to share your music and having nothing ready is not a feeling you invent, and Terry Hart’s piano is where most of the emotional work happens here, and it earns that role.
Simon Moro’s production keeps things clean and uncluttered, and Jessica McPherson-Riley’s backing vocals appear at exactly the right moments, present enough to matter but never crowding McKee out. What actually lands about this track is that it doesn’t reach for anything bigger than the memory it came from. A real theatre, a real gig, a real person who probably had no idea she was about to push someone into quitting their degree. McKee doesn’t inflate it. He just lets the detail do the work, and it does.
Reetoxa is one of those acts worth getting ahead of. Go follow them on Instagram now and see where this goes.
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