Lissie's "Cuckoo" Focuses On Her Young Version

Following the release of her critically acclaimed debut album "Catching A Tiger" last week, the everyone's new favourite lady folkster Lissie Maurus, known by her stage name 'Lissie,' has unveiled the heartfelt new video for her forthcoming second single "Cuckoo," which will be released on August 30 through Columbia Records. The video focuses on a young version of Lissie, we follow her as she first falls in love and becomes a musician.
Lissie is growing on us like a fungus to a toe. The angelic-looking, cigarette-smoking American is extremely talented. Lissie was born in Rock Island, Illinois, one of the Quad Cities on the banks of the Mississippi River. She's a straight-talking Midwestern girl, all flaxen hair and big blue eyes, and this girl is smart and gutsy and tough, with a big old voice to match it. Lissie, like Ellie Goulding, is one of those people who has shown up on indie radars everywhere despite not doing a huge amount to warrant it. Unlike, say, Florence & The Machine, there's no revivalist feel, and little that makes it hers. Perfect for cafes in New York perhaps, but it doesn't really translate to something you can be inspired by.
Not to be mistaken for Lissy Trullie, another highly regarded American singer-songwriter, Lissie deals in sun-kissed pop-blues straight from Laurel Canyon. Her 12-track debut conjures images of highways and horses, with Lissie's smoky tones echoing Stevie Nicks. The flaxen-haired singer has a voice that crackles with the influence of blues as much as it does with folk and a range and delivery that puts most rock singers to shame. "Catching A Tiger" is the perfect record for sunny days and driving with the wind in your hair, and "Cuckoo" is its latest single. There are many things from her life & history that make these songs and her spirit possible, some of it in deference to that spirit.
"Cuckoo" is the perfect embodiment of Lissie's potential to fulfill a large gap within the current musical market. Rather than be bogged down by the all too easily exploited morbid and unhappy memories that plague every creative genius, this song celebrates the defiance of youth and its petulance, delivering this message in an upbeat, subtly produced number that could very well and perhaps should be the independent, folk anthem of this summer. "Cuckoo" isn't as immediate as Lissie's amazing first single "When I'm Alone," but it's got a gorgeous feel-good vibe that should work well on radio. It's a well made song, just a country/folk pop tune done by
numbers. There is nothing original about this, and we get a song that could soundtrack a Hollywood movie, but not a real life.