Lispector - Guide to Personal Happiness

Lispector is Julie and her Eight Track. It used to be Julie and her Four Track, but in 2004 she branched out, and doubled her fun. Insouciant, but not jaded, Guide to Personal Happiness is the 3rd album for the surnameless Julie, who moved to New York from France in 2000. Track one- ‘Lispector Sur Une Balancoire’ is an instrumental glitchy, bleepy, drum-machine-backed waltz. Track two-‘ Romantic at Heart’- is a bedroom voice, saying ‘If you want to see me just come over/ About anytime or even later’, while the drum machine rattles sleepily in the background. By the time track seven- ‘Peachtree Street’- has been reached, with an opening hook and lyrics that Stephen Malkmus would be proud of (‘She was acting so well you know that she died for real’) Lispector has stolen your heart, put it in the locket around her neck, and is promptly writing a song about it for her next album. As Karl McDonald would put it, plusplusplus.