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New Video: Stimmerman Shares Eerie “Mirror”

Eva Lawitts is a New York-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, grizzled local scene veteran and JOVM mainstay: Lawitts began her career with a 14-year run with local, prog rock shredders Sister Helen. Since Sister Helen’s break-up, she has developed a reputation as a go-to session and touring musician, working with Vagabon, Princess Nokia, and others.

Lawitts aslo co-runs Brooklyn-based recording studio, Wonderpark Studios, where she’s a producer and engineer. Adding to a busy schedule, the Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer played bass on Oceanator‘s Things I Never Said. 

Her recording project Stimmerman — which is simultaneously a band and a solo project — was founded back in 2017 after her previous band Sister Helen split up. “I wanted a project that was all mine and so I picked a family name long-changed for the purposes of assimilating into American Society (what a concept)- Stimmerman,” Lawitts explains in press notes. 

Lawitts’ Stimmerman debut, 2019’s Goofballs which featured “It Shows” and “Dentist vs. Pharmacist.” was ” . . . more or less about loss and survivor’s guilt: it’s a meditation on a friend’s fatal overdose at a young age through that lens.”

Lawitts’ latest album Undertaking is slated for a May 26, 2023 release through Worry Records. The album reportedly sees Lawitts further cementing her reputation for creating boundary pushing work inspired by an eclectic array of music that aims to hold a cathartic space for the listener/audience.

Undertaking‘s latest single “Mirror” is built around a brooding and eerie production featuring twinkling keys paired with sparse skittering beats, swirling guitar textures and Lawitts’ comforting and self-aware crooning. While “Mirror” sonically brings a sleek synthesis of Beacon and Sylvan Esso with a playful nod to lullabies, the song lyrically is an self-aware yet unvarnished and unafraid baring of the soul — and its deepest desires and thoughts.

The accompanying video for “Mirror” was animated and edited by Max McDaniel-Neff features footage of bodies of water with line drawings depicting the song’s lyrics superimposed over the water.

Video by William Ruben Helms

New Video: Stimmerman Shares a Trippy and Unsettling Visual for New Ripper “Geek”

Eva Lawitts is a New York-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, grizzled local scene veteran and JOVM mainstay: Lawitts began her varied and interesting career with a 14 year run with local, prog rock shredders Sister Helen. She has simultaneously developed a reputation as a go-to session and touring musician, working with Vagabon, and Princess Nokia.

Lawitts also co-runs Brooklyn-based recording studio, Wonderpark Studios, where she’s a producer and engineer. Adding to a busy schedule, the Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer played bass on Oceanator‘s Things I Never Said.

Her recording project Stimmerman — which is simultaneously a band and a solo project — was founded back in 2017 after her previous band Sister Helen split up. “I wanted a project that was all mine and so I picked a family name long-changed for the purposes of assimilating into American Society (what a concept)- Stimmerman,” Lawitts explains in press notes.

Lawitts’ Stimmerman debut, 2019’s Goofballs was ” . . . more or less about loss and survivor’s guilt: it’s a meditation on a friend’s fatal overdose at a young age through that lens.” And if you were following JOVM back then, you might recall that Goofballs featured the Bleach-era Nirvana meets PJ Harvey-like “It Shows” and the expansive math rock meets shoegaze meets acid rock-like “Dentist vs. Pharmacist.”

“Geek” is the first bit of original material from Lawitts since Goofballs. Clocking in at about 65 seconds, the new Stimmernan single manages to simultaneously be an expansive and yet breakneck ripper, featuring grungy power chords, thunderous drumming and fluttering synths and feedback paried with Stimmerman’s surrealistic yet visceral lyrics.

Directed and animated by Elenor Kopka, the recently released video features a series of amoeba-like humanoid faces that morph, bend, and melt throughout the video. Interestingly, each face seems marked by some unspoken fear or worry.

“Geek” will appear on Stimmerman’s sophomore album, which is slated for release later this year.