Philly Girl About Town
Thank you to Carly and phillygirlabouttown.com for this excellent write-up about the band’s debut album, Without Dreams, We Are Only Sleeping…
“The Lift Up’s fantastic debut was recorded in the spring and mixed and mastered in the summer with Jim Salamone at Cambridge Sound Studio in Philadelphia. The album features the wistful songwriting and storytelling skills of lead singer and guitarist Joe Castro, with a theme that seems to board the listener on an intriguing and timeless walk down memory lane from childhood familial history to present proof.
The band’s roots-rock sound is punctuated by Castro’s plaintive yet gruff vocals; an attached storyteller that wants the listener to be transported by the lyrics and each punctuation of the time they are traveling to. Where ‘Galicia’ seems to allude to the origins of the singer’s own name, the next track ‘Norfolk Street’ laments a romanticised memory of a street that was once home. The Lift Up’s debut does a fantastic job of pulling a listener into the story with each new song, literally lifting you up to take you into their home, the heart of where they grew up, breathing life within each new idea of home and memory.
Don’t miss this talented new group tonight at The Queen where they play to a hometown crowd, which is fitting for an album that takes you there.”