Lyre is the project of Serena Brindisi, an artist and electronic music producer based in Milan.
After working as an actress and performer in Italy for a very long time, she moved to the UK and remained there for over 6 years to devote herself completely to music. She studied between Edinburgh and Bath and got a master’s degree in popular music supervised by Davey Ray Moor (Coustau) and collaborated with various British artists and producers including Dan Brown (Massive Attack, Karin Park). In 2020,  she released her first single, a cover of "Send His Love To Me", "a dilated, disturbing, obsessive version of the song by PJ Harvey that reveals how Lyre's project is a unique and rare example of the Italian independent scene "(Meiweb). In 2021, her debut EP "Queer Beauties" was released by Pitch The Noise Records, preceded by the single and video of "Broken Flowers" directed by Davide Mastrangelo. The music video was named one of the best independent videos of 2021 by Mei Meeting. The debut EP received very positively by Italian critics and defined by some as a "small masterpiece, disconnected from any scene, context, reference, equal only to itself" (Rock On) in which "Rhythmic violence and vocal fragility are accompanied by a well-kept graphic project. We wouldn't be surprised, among a few, to find her on the Club2Club stage." (Rockit). Her influences previously  included Sevdaliza, Portishead and Massive Attack but most recently her artistic research has been focused on  organic textures, neoclassical elements, granular soundscapes and vocal timbre exploration and manipulation, mainly inspired by  the work of artists such as Arca,Bjork, Fka Twigs,Woodkid and Son Lux .

The Stagger Rats were borne out of love under a bad sign, the love children of a mythical creature long lost to science, but never to the ear of a musician. They harmonise their gutter pop sedative straight to the main vein of happiness. Let them wash over you, they are a truly unique wave that restores the soul and jangles your extremities. Their debut album ‘Scorpio Leisure’, produced by Owen Morris (Oasis, The Verve, The View), features singles ‘Fuzzy Fuzzy’, ‘I’m in Love’ and the newly-released ‘Sleeping Off Ecstasy’, and is sure to dent your skull.

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