You've heard of Hardcore, right? Even possibly, Slowcore. But what about Cuddlecore? That's really the description of Lisa Marr's music.
Marr orginally started off in the Canadian band, Cub, in 1992. They broke up in '97, and Marr ended up in several bands, including Buck, The Beards, The Lisa Marr Experiment, Lisa Marr & Soda, and currently The Here & Now.
It looks like The Here & Now are just Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr. Apparently Davanzo is also the founder of Echo Park Film Center (you can look at their Flickr Photos). From my understanding, that every one of Lisa's song, there is a short experimental movie or film that goes with it (presumeably directed and produced by Davanzo).
I haven't seen any of their films, but this song, called "Xochimilco" is certainly cute. It's about how they decided to ride the subway train to the end of the line and ended up at the Xochimilco stop. The song said they had a pretty good time :)
I believe this train station that she's singing about is actually in South Mexico City.
Trivia: They Might Be Giants made one of her song, New York City, really famous. You can listen to it, if you haven't heard it: They Might Be Giants - New York City. Their version contains bell-sounds, which is actually pretty cool.
Bonus: You can download all of Lisa Marr at WHFR (plus other samples - unfortunately the quality are all mono and sampling rate of 32k).
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