Canton musician Brian Lisik has been around the area music scene since the mid 2000s, both as a member of the band Giants of Science and as a solo artist with a string of albums, self-described as “guitar-driven power pop and pensive neo-folk.”
They include Baggage (2004), Happiness Is Boring (2006), The Mess That Money Could Buy (2012), and Curtis Interruptus (2015) and We’re Sorry (2017), both as Brian Lisik & the Unfortunates. In late 2020, he added Gudbye Stoopid Whirled to his catalog, with songs co-written by his longtime writing partner Steve Norgrove and production courtesy of Canton-based veteran producer Don Dixon, who’s nationally known for his work with such bands as REM, Gin Blossoms and the Smithereens.
The pandemic isn’t slowing down his output. This month he launched a year-long project to put out a monthly series of singles in 2022, starting with the December 17 release of “Sights,” which he describes as “an eerie, lyrically poignant goth-western.” He’s assembled the same team: it’s co-produced by Dixon and “The Dimmerer Twins” (Lisik and Norgrove).
The song was written in the late 90s and is part pays tribute to Giants of Science member Jimmy Dobric who died in October 2020.
“Jimmy and I once challenged each other to write a cowboy song; he was a big Marty Robbins fan and we both dug stuff like Tom Waits and pre-E. Street Band Springsteen,” says Lisik in a press release. “Sights’ is what I came up with, then forgot about for the next 25 years. When Jimmy died, I dusted it off and was surprised how much of it I remembered and how relevant it still is today.”
Get more information about “Sights” and Lisik’s future projects at brianlisik.com.