Out Yer Box Records
Release Date - 29 May 2024
Catalogue - OYB010

Established singer-songwriter Lisa Moorish follows up the success of her recent singles ‘Sylvia’ and ‘The Hunger’ with her new drop, ‘Social Pariah’ . It’s the third single taken from her new album ‘Divine Chaos’, her first major release for 20 years, and is released on Out Yer Box, the sister label of Jack Said What, headed up by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh.

Lisa has already had strong radio support for her first two singles, with plays by Lauren Laverne and Chris Hawkins on BBC 6Music, Jo Whiley on Radio 2, and Gary Crowley on BBC Radio London, amongst others.

Co-written by Zoe Devlin Love (Alabama 3), the track has an eighties electronic pop influence, from a time when Lisa may have been particularly affected by the sound of Annie Lennox and Kate Bush.

Many of Lisa’s songs carry an underlying social theme which draw from life experience, and this is no different. ‘Social Pariah’ is about those people that are avoided by everyone in social situations because of betrayal or their unpopular beliefs.

“‘Social Pariah’ is a song about the outwardly charming, but inwardly treacherous, duplicitous and narcissistic type. It's about a few people that I have come across — some of whom I have observed in the public eye. Actors, politicians, musicians, journalists, establishments, and even countries… when the truth of their real agenda and behaviour is revealed.” — Lisa Moorish

Lisa Moorish first made her name in music as a teenager, when she had a club hit in 1989 with ‘Rock To The Beat’, a track written by Detroit techno luminaries Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson that fed into the UK’s acid house explosion at the time. She went on to work with the likes of Paul Weller and George Michael before being swept up in the Britpop scene and recording vocals on tracks by some of the biggest bands of that era — Oasis, Blur and Ash. She then started her own indie electro-punk band, Kill City, in the early noughties, and they were quickly snapped up by music mogul Alan McGee and signed to his new label, Poptones.

‘Divine Chaos’ is Lisa’s first solo album for more than 20 years. The name derives from a play that she was in, The Divine Chaos Of Starry Things, where she took the lead role as the French Revolutionary, Louis Michel. The play's title and one of its themes is reflected in one of the album’s songs too — ‘This Chaos Is Divine’. “It’s also a summary and description of an all-encompassing, heady and chaotic love experience with another,” she says. “The theme of the album, mostly.”

Other songs on the album reflect a recent relationship that Lisa had that is now over. “I fell in love, I felt the demise of it happening, the desperation to hold onto a failing relationship, and then the eventual end of it. And some other songs are about my rage at the current state of the world today. Another one is about dealing with liars, manipulators, and narcissists. There’s a lot of it about!”

With this album, it feels like Lisa has gone full circle: back to working with electronic music again, the genre that she started out releasing back in the late 1980s. The songs have attitude, indicative of a life lived on both sides of the tracks. “I came from the acid house and techno scene when I started out aged 17,” she says, “and it's like a second shot at it, without the destruction, distractions, addictions, bullshit and giving a f*ck what others think or say about me.”

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