Award-winning writer, actor, comedian, and musician, Lane Moore is back with her new EP, Final Girl. Alongside full band, Lane More + It Was Romance, including kindred spirits in Angel Lozada (drums), Ryan Ross (bass), and Lisa Bianco (lead guitar), the new EP finds the group building off of the momentum from their 2015 self-titled debut album. It blends shredding garage rock guitars and experimental drums with heartbreaking synthpop and intimate lyricism, documents Moore’s journey through isolation and the vulnerable process of letting people in.
The new EP kicks off with the lead single, “Playing Records,” with Moore in a state of extremely cautious optimism. When the shining chorus begins, Moore sings, “And I’m starting to have a little faith, I don’t have much going on to be happy about.” “It’s absolutely possible to realize everything around you is painful, except this one small thing,” Moore says. “And to decide you’re going to go directly in the direction of that joy, even if it blows up in your face, because for right now it just feels so good to feel something remotely hopeful.”
Singer-songwriter Ted Leo reflects on the new music: “Everyone knows Lane’s wit, but what always makes it land so well is the sincerity that undergirds it. That comes to the fore in this tight four song EP… Who among us hasn’t gone through those nights of, as the lead track talks about, “playing records without you?” It’s great.” The song’s a powerful and apt beginning for a record that finds the songwriter caught between two worlds of self-doubt, loneliness, and isolation, and confidence, connection, and a stubborn willingness to fight to stick around for a better ending.
Lane Moore’s writing on loneliness and connection deeply resonates—her first two books, “How To Be Alone” and “You Will Find Your People,” both became #1 bestsellers, with praise from outlets ranging from The New York Times to NPR to Oprah Magazine, even inspiring a TEDx Talk on the art of being alone. Her comedy has earned her recognition through her successful comedy show “Tinder Live!” and contributions to The Onion; her acting work includes roles on HBO’s “Girls” and “Search Party.”
Lane’s creative work spans multiple mediums but it’s in her songwriting that fans may find her most visceral form of expression, weaving between raw, guttural feelings of pain and euphoric moments of release, creating intimate songs that capture the yearning at the heart of human connection. This duality in her music has caught the attention of fellow artists, with Arcade Fire’s Will Butler and Tony Award winner of Stereophonic comparing it to New Order, calling it ‘Perfect. An Instant classic…A short gem of a soundtrack for living a complicated life,’ while comedian Patton Oswalt marvels, ‘I don’t think it’s legal to make angst, heartache and confusion this dance-able.'”