Magnatune; 2005
Rating: 4.6

There are several good songs on this record, but you’d never know it because Lisa’s best asset - her voice - is usually drowned in effects that would’ve been put to better use disguising her template preset synth ‘instruments.’ Tigers represents no progression from Fruitless, technically or creatively. The album’s mediocrity is especially irksome because Lisa is clearly a decent songwriter and good singer, but her ’shimmering textural pop’ needs studio production like Ashley Simpson’s voice.

With better production and a little more energy, Lisa could be an excellent female Maximilian Hecker. A shining light of hope is found in ‘Lowell’, specifically when the instrumentation sounds less like a raw Fruityloops piano roll and more like Stereolab. Lisa plans to release another album later this year. I hope she can solve her production problems and embrace creative daring.